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Middle name on booking/flight ticket

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Slowslowlavaflow · 22/11/2022 15:49

Dear all,

I am flying on Aegean Airlines in Spring to Greece. I booked the tickets on Lastminute which were great value for money. I have now been informed by Aegean that middle names should be added to bookings. Both Aegean and Lastminute do not have a slot for including middle names on the booking form. Aegean also only has Mrs, Mr, and Dr as titles and a little girl in the party is down as Mrs on the booking when viewed on their website. But I digress.
I have tried contacting LastMinute who have said no changes can be made. Only cancellation is possible, although this is ultimately their issue as they have no provision to add it. Aegean have said they can only make a change when check-in starts in 5 months' time, and that would incur a fee and extra cost as the tickets will cost more by then. Further they stated if I had booked on their website, I would still need to pay to make the change even though there is nowhere to add the middle name. I was told it should be added together with the first name in the first name slot.
I am tired of fighting LastMinute on this. So, my question is, in everyone's experience, have you needed to add you middle name to your booking/ticket to fly? Have you come upon this issue of no place to add your middle name/s? Have you had any issues flying on a ticket with only your first and last name showing? And has anyone had experience flying with Aegean with these circumstances? I am hoping I will not need to cancel this as I know that can have its issues as well and I am stressed already. Any help and advice on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Slowslowlavaflow · 22/11/2022 21:37

@dementedpixie
Thank you. I hope it is the same for all.

@crosstalk
Goodness. That is 1/3 of my fare. I hope your destination made it worth it.

@feliciabirthgiver
Thank you. That is very reassuring. I hope I have the same experience as you.

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Ijj · 20/06/2023 12:18

What was the outcome for this flight? Did they ask for middle names in the end at check in or was it fine?

Slowslowlavaflow · 21/06/2023 00:51

It was fine. No one cared at all. Turned out to be a lot of unnecessary fretting on my part.

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thanksamillion · 22/06/2023 14:33

So glad to find this thread. I just realised that the Easyjet flights I booked for August for 5 of us don't have middle names on. I did the API the other day though and there wasn't an option to add them there either. On the Easyjet website it says they should be and that it's £55 per person per flight to amend the name! I've been panicking all morning that it's going to cost me another £500!

GiantKitten · 22/06/2023 14:54

Slowslowlavaflow · 21/06/2023 00:51

It was fine. No one cared at all. Turned out to be a lot of unnecessary fretting on my part.

Unnecessary as it turned out!
but a perfectly reasonable panic on your part IMO 🙂

Slowslowlavaflow · 24/06/2023 17:23

@thanksamillion I hope you have a fabulous time away.
@GiantKitten Thank you.

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WifeOfTiresias · 25/06/2023 18:03

I use Easyjet regularly and have never added middle names ever, including to the API information. Never had a problem.

YogaTeacherdevon · 01/07/2023 18:39

I have similar problem with Cathay Pacific. When you did your API, did you put your full name including the middle name?

YogaTeacherdevon · 01/07/2023 18:40

I have the same problem with Cathay.
when you did your API did you put your full name including the middle name?

TerfIngOnTheBeach · 01/07/2023 18:50

thanksamillion · 22/06/2023 14:33

So glad to find this thread. I just realised that the Easyjet flights I booked for August for 5 of us don't have middle names on. I did the API the other day though and there wasn't an option to add them there either. On the Easyjet website it says they should be and that it's £55 per person per flight to amend the name! I've been panicking all morning that it's going to cost me another £500!

I arrived in Italy today on EasyJet, middle names on none of the four names across two separate bookings. No one checked, no one cared. If fact we didn’t interact with EasyJet humans until boarding. Cursory glance at boarding card and passport and off we went.

I fretted a bit yesterday as our 23kg luggage was exactly that on our home scales, but DDs 15kg luggage was 18kg when she put them on EJ bag drop scales. No one said anything and computer said go, not no!

A very positive experience tbf.

AuditAngel · 01/07/2023 18:50

Thanksamillion we fly easyJet all the time, we never have middle names on our bookings. DS actually uses his second name, we just book him using the first name per passport.

Cratos · 26/04/2024 20:26

thanksamillion · 22/06/2023 14:33

So glad to find this thread. I just realised that the Easyjet flights I booked for August for 5 of us don't have middle names on. I did the API the other day though and there wasn't an option to add them there either. On the Easyjet website it says they should be and that it's £55 per person per flight to amend the name! I've been panicking all morning that it's going to cost me another £500!

Were you OK at the end with Easy jet? I realised that I have to pay 330 if I decide to add the middle names as well. That is a lot of money.

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