Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)

Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by Tor3 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:29AM (#38938614)

There's one thing I at least haven't had any problems with. I have a middle name. I never use it. I always order my flight tickets without the middle name. However, my passport includes the middle name. I've never had a problem with that, in Japanese airports (or elsewhere, for that matter).

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by kiwijamo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:06PM (#38943148)

Same here, my passport includes my middle name but I always book my air tickets without my middle name. Have had no issues in about 15+ countries with this approach.

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by interloxia on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:35AM (#38951389)

I've had complaints but no issues so far when not using my middle name whilst flying.

Middle names are less common where I live. The locals tend to add my middle name to my fist name and then complain that it's long and doesn't match their database at first glance.

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Re:Your last name contains invalid characters (2010) by bombcar on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @08:06PM (#38946040)

It all blows up when some system somewhere doesn’t like that it doesn’t know your middle name and so adds NMN and then you have a failure to match.

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