Apply passenger name record rules for exact ticket name matching

domain: travel-general · 6 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Collect the passenger's name exactly as it appears on the travel document (passport or national ID) they will use — do not infer from a user profile or email address without explicit confirmation.
  2. Most airlines accept Latin characters only on tickets; for passengers whose documents use non-Latin scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic), use the romanized name from the machine-readable zone (MRZ) of the passport.
  3. Remove or transliterate special characters that airline reservation systems cannot process: accented characters (é→E, ü→UE per ICAO), hyphens in given names (Anne-Marie → ANNEMARIE or ANNE MARIE depending on carrier), and apostrophes (O'Brien → OBRIEN).
  4. Split name into surname and given name(s) as separate fields — do not concatenate into a single string; middle names are typically included in the given name field and must not be omitted if on the travel document.
  5. Titles (Mr, Mrs, Dr) are stored in a separate title field in booking APIs — do not prepend them to the name string, as this causes name mismatch at check-in.
  6. After creating the booking, display the ticketed name back to the user for confirmation before payment is captured; name changes after ticketing are expensive or impossible on most carriers.

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