Airline Ticket Messup

[SPAM]

I booked my sister's ticket to Orlando under her maiden name (she got married last year). I called Southwest and they said to bring her marriage license but after I told them her passport just says her maiden name still and is valid they said to use that. Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I just have her use the passport and not say anything? I leave tomorrow.

 

[DebbieB]

I booked my sister's ticket to Orlando under her maiden name (she got married last year). I called Southwest and they said to bring her marriage license but after I told them her passport just says her maiden name still and is valid they said to use that. Does anyone have any experience with this? Should I just have her use the passport and not say anything? I leave tomorrow.

I would use the passport. If you use the marriage license, you could get held up at security.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Don't make things confusing! Just use the passport for the id; she will be fine.

 

[SPAM]

Yeah we will just use the passport and say nada.

 

[shoney]

I've been married 20 years and my passport is still in my maiden name.

So, when we fly international, the ticket goes in my maiden name.

For domestic, my married name (since I use my drivers license for ID)

No problems at all!

 

[phoenixleigh]

it says on the web site to type in the name exactly as it is on the ID. So if she is using passport, then the boarding pass must match the passport.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

it says on the web site to type in the name exactly as it is on the ID. So if she is using passport, then the boarding pass must match the passport.

It has already been been established that the ticket name matches the passport. Despite what you have read, names don't have to match exactly; ie Tom on a ticket and Thomas on an id are fine, as is using a middle initial or name on one and not the other.

 

[bumbershoot]

Despite what you have read, names don't have to match exactly; ie Tom on a ticket and Thomas on an id are fine, as is using a middle initial or name on one and not the other.

Yeppers. DH travels for business, and if ticket and ID had to match exactly, due to the way United prints his name out he would be in huge trouble. They scrunch MR and his name and middle initial all together in the most bizarre way. And they have serious problems with the hyphen in my son's name. We type it out correctly, but they like to change it by the time it hits the ticket.

Even for international travel, this hasn't been an issue with DH.


SPAM, after this trip, if your sister was married inside 365 days (you said last year, but that could mean 2 weeks ago, of course), she can get her name changed in the passport to match her legal name for free.

 

[phoenixleigh]

It has already been been established that the ticket name matches the passport. Despite what you have read, names don't have to match exactly; ie Tom on a ticket and Thomas on an id are fine, as is using a middle initial or name on one and not the other.

Excuse me! I was just trying to help. There was no need to say that .

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Excuse me! I was just trying to help. There was no need to say that .

Are you saying there is no need to provide accurate information?

 

[phoenixleigh]

Mine is correct is off of the airlines web site and you got snotty with your answer. Ask TSA if you go with a boarding pass that says R Peter Smith and your boarding pass says Robert P Smith. The Officer will ask you to go back to the ticket counter to fix the boarding pass or they will call their Supervisor.

 

[phoenixleigh]

Are you saying there is no need to provide accurate information?

Here is your accurate information

Does the name on all of my Identity Documents have to match? What if my driver’s license has only my middle initial, but my passport has my full name? Should I change my driver’s license to match my passport?

Secure Flight does not require that the names on all of your IDs be identical. Passengers should ensure, however, that the name used when making a reservation matches the ID that will be used when the passenger checks in. To illustrate this point using a hypothetical example, if a passenger’s current driver’s license reads “John C. Doe,” the passenger is not required to apply for a new driver’s license listing the complete middle name. However, if the passenger plans to use his driver’s license for identification purposes when traveling, he should ensure that he makes his flight reservation using the exact name on the driver’s license, “John C. Doe.”

by the way I got this off of the TSA FAQs

 

[Greysword]

Mine is correct is off of the airlines web site and you got snotty with your answer.

Whoa, easy there trigger You must be new to the Transportation board. This here place is a no-fluff zone, where the meat comes out and hits you across the head . Cyber and OCC, in particular, tell it straight, and no malice need be applied...it's just who they are .

Here is your accurate information

Does the name on all of my Identity Documents have to match? What if my driver’s license has only my middle initial, but my passport has my full name? Should I change my driver’s license to match my passport?

Secure Flight does not require that the names on all of your IDs be identical. Passengers should ensure, however, that the name used when making a reservation matches the ID that will be used when the passenger checks in. To illustrate this point using a hypothetical example, if a passenger’s current driver’s license reads “John C. Doe,” the passenger is not required to apply for a new driver’s license listing the complete middle name. However, if the passenger plans to use his driver’s license for identification purposes when traveling, he should ensure that he makes his flight reservation using the exact name on the driver’s license, “John C. Doe.”

by the way I got this off of the TSA FAQs

While this is technically true, the actual practice is fairly forgiving, with the TSA agents using their judgements to determine if a march back to the counter is needed (usually not). In addition, it was established on another thread that all but three States are out of security compliance with federal rules regarding their Drivers Licenses useable as ID to board a plane, so the license technically shouldn't be used, anyway.

Yeppers.

Did you just say Yeppers???

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

Mine is correct is off of the airlines web site and you got snotty with your answer. Ask TSA if you go with a boarding pass that says R Peter Smith and your boarding pass says Robert P Smith. The Officer will ask you to go back to the ticket counter to fix the boarding pass or they will call their Supervisor.

Sorry, but the information I provided is accurate and your information, including the post I quoted here, is just plain wrong. I was in no way "snotty." If you want to participate in online discussions, I suggest that you develop a thicker skin and not take corrections personally.

 

[bumbershoot]

Mine is correct is off of the airlines web site and you got snotty with your answer. Ask TSA if you go with a boarding pass that says R Peter Smith and your boarding pass says Robert P Smith. The Officer will ask you to go back to the ticket counter to fix the boarding pass or they will call their Supervisor.

No, they really won't. If they did this, DH would have to get to the airport 4 hours early for every flight, especially with United, b/c the name they put on his boarding passes barely looks anything like his name.

Maybe someday they will follow through on it, and I hope that United prints his name out correctly by then!

Did you just say Yeppers???

Ayep. I had a prof who said it, and it just stuck. So so so irritating during the time we were in his class, and now all of us still say it (as far as I know).

 

[jlewisinsyr]

I've never changed my information with my company's travel agent so my name does not match between my boarding pass and my ID. My IDs have my middle name, my profile that books my trips does not; it has NEVER been an issue and I travel pretty frequently.

So although according to TSA information it must match, this is a case that the rule is never followed exactly to the letter.

 

[goofyfigment]

No, they really won't. If they did this, DH would have to get to the airport 4 hours early for every flight, especially with United, b/c the name they put on his boarding passes barely looks anything like his name.

Maybe someday they will follow through on it, and I hope that United prints his name out correctly by then!

Glad it wasn't only me, i couldn't for the life of me figure out what United was trying to say my name was on my boarding passes.

 

[cel_disney]

Definitely use the passport for this case - and don't panic!


For the record - I travel atleast monthly and my license has a hyphenated last name and I travel with tickets that just say the part after the hyphen. I have never had a problem in regular lines or tsa pre-check lines.

 

[NJRRK]

No, they really won't. If they did this, DH would have to get to the airport 4 hours early for every flight, especially with United, b/c the name they put on his boarding passes barely looks anything like his name.

Maybe someday they will follow through on it, and I hope that United prints his name out correctly by then!

This is the Continental legacy coming through lol. MRRICHARDD SMITHJONES instead of MR. RICHARD D. SMITH-JONES