I’m taking my first international flight this year. I’ve got my passport and bought the plane tickets. However, I noticed that my middle name on the ticket is missing the last 2 letters. I contacted the airline and they said that middle name doesn’t have to match passport. I just want to make sure that is correct, I don’t want to get stuck at some airport because my middle name is missing 2 letters on the plane tickets.
You shouldn’t have any trouble. If they have a protocol to flag that kind of thing, they’ll resolve it by confirming the name on the card that bought the tickets, not turn you away.
Thank you for the clarification and peace of mind!
One of my relatives has a last name that has characters not in ASCII, she could fly to the US and back without issue despite her last name not matching on the passport, ticket and visa.
These desks are manned by humans, so you will most likely be fine, but you might catch an idiot as well.
I had an incident where my driver’s license was missing the last letter of my middle name and the plane ticket had my full middle name, the TSA agent questioned it but didn’t hold me up.
When I renewed my license the next time I made sure they were able to get my full middle name on there. Just didn’t want to get the wrong agent.
My surname contains spaces. I’ve yet to encounter an airline that is able to handle that properly, so my last name on a ticket never matches my passport name. Either parts are missing, or they just print it as a single word. Never given me issues, so I doubt a slightly truncated middle name is going to pose a problem.
I have three middle names, and somehow have ended up with about half of my government docs using all three, and some using only one. I feel stupid about it, but I’ve never had a problem and have flown internationally many times.