Do I need a middle name on my flight booking?!

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Panicking a bit here - I'm due to fly at the weekend and realised my middle name isn't on the flight booking (Easyjet) and I can't get through to anyone in customer services. Has anyone had any issues?

You don't need your middle name on the ticket. I had this before and it was all OK.

So long as it's not on your passport you'll be fine. Name has to be as per passport

I’ve forgotten to put mine in before with EJ and it was fine.
just first name and surname needs to be accurate

It is on my passport!

First name and surname need to match your passport, they’re not bothered about middle names. I fly with EasyJet a lot and never put my middle name, despite it being on my passport, never had a problem.

you don't. I fly Easyjet at least monthly, never used middle names, nobody cares.

Agree with last 2 posters definitely not required by easyJet. I don't have it on any of my past bookings, despite it being on my passport.

It’s fine , you only need first and last names
We went TUI this summer and I forgot to put middle names ( which are on our passports ) and it was fine .

It’s important with some airlines in the Far East

Yes, definitely with airlines like Japan you need to include all names on your passport but not with EJ.

My middle name is on my passport but I never use it to book flights. I think the first and last name are needed and I’ve never been pulled up

There was a long thread about this being necessary for Japan - I wonder if that poster managed to fly out there successfully? I felt quite stressed for her just reading about it!

I’ve flown 16 times this year, including EasyJet and Japan (though not a Japanese airline), and have never put my middle name on a booking.

A friend went last year and took an internal flight from Saigon to Da Nang. She was turned away as her ticket didnt have her middle name. Its not common but she literally had to buy another ticket.

I only use first and last name on the ticket despite having 3 middle names. Never had a problem in lots of international travel.

It doesn't matter. I know, because my granddaughter's middle names are in her passport, but the combination is too long for booking tickets online, so I recently phoned an airline and double checked. First and last need to match.

If you speak to EJ, they will tell you to change the ticket at a cost of £100

just chance it. It’s unlikely to be a problem

No you are all good - I work in travel we rarely use middle names unless asked.

As regular business flyer mostly to middle east I was booked on a flight a year ago from Heathrow to Doha with onward travel already paid for on same airline as that from LHR after an approximate 1 hour transit time...not a problem boarding at LHR but on arrival at Doha in middle of night it was pointed out to me that my ticket was missing middle name and did not match "Full Name" on my passport. I was not allowed to board onward transit flight by Qatar security. Spent 5 hours "in custody" having quite a hard time getting it sorted which basically ended up with me having to pay for name change on the ticket or I wasn't going anywhere. Its not a very common thing to happen but if an airline or airport security staff especially in the middle east you will have no choice to comply regardless of what a travel agent says back home says.

I suspect that Chinese airlines would require the middle name too. ExDP had his credit cards and cash stolen in China. The insurance company wired him some money but didn’t use his middle name on the forms. None of the banks would give him the money.