Timeline for United Airlines joined my first name and middle name on boarding pass. How to correct this?
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| Jan 9, 2018 at 14:53 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @JustinLardinois: Exactly the page I had in mind! Thanks for digging it out again - I would never have been able to find it. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | quetzalcoatl | Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff = Adolph Blaine Charles David .. plus, of course Some societes have naming rules you wouldn't expect | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 14:16 | comment | added | Keiki | Keep in mind that although Americans usually have a first, middle, and last name, that's not how it works everywhere (and plenty of Americans have more than three names). Japanese people only have a first and last name. Hispanic people frequently have one given and two last names. If the airline has two name 'slots' and combines FirstMiddle, LastLast, etc, they can accommodate all kinds of names without having to have a bunch of different name fields. It's easier for everyone. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | sam_smith | It is also worth noting they often do this with hyphenated surnames too: SMITH-JONES goes to SMITHJONES. Many website won't accept hyphens and this has never been an issue when travelling extensively around the world. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:18 | comment | added | user2752467 | @LightnessRacesinOrbit related reading kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/… | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 16:42 | comment | added | Fattie | This is indeed correct. I've never had a problem. One way to look at it is, they just don't have "hyphen" or even "space" in that character set for that field - so it comes out that way. After all, folks with rock-umlauts etc. in their name, also suffer simplification of the presentation of the name. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 15:07 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | It's also a case study in silly validation assumptions when dealing with real-world identifying information. Think of all those "ZIP Code" forms online that require you to live in just one of almost 200 countries available. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 8:26 | comment | added | TomTom | That likely is a technical standard going back many years. They combine it into two fields and the separator in some transfer is a space - so first and middle name must be without space. Most of those system standards are OLD. | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 20:07 | vote | accept | question2018 | ||
| Jan 7, 2018 at 20:06 | comment | added | question2018 | Yes, it has the last name too. It says Traveler Name: Firstmiddle Last | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 20:01 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | @question2018 Yes, exactly. My United boarding passes are usually of exactly that form (actually, they usually add "Mr" on the end so it's more like "Smith JohnWaltermr", sometimes even truncated) and nobody blinks twice at it. It does have your last name on there somewhere, right? | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 19:59 | comment | added | question2018 | To give a better example, if your name was John Walter Smith, it would be Johnwalter if your boarding pass was showing up like mine is right now. Is that still okay? | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 19:53 | history | answered | Zach Lipton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |