{"id":"48b3a6c1-c1a5-4989-8f65-6c3c8ffa7011","task":"Apply passenger name record rules for exact ticket name matching","domain":"travel-general","steps":["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.","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.","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).","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.","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.","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."],"gotchas":["Infant names must exactly match the birth certificate or passport used at the airport — using a nickname or shortened form will cause check-in problems even if the airline does not verify documents at booking time.","Some carriers enforce a maximum name length (e.g. 35 characters total for surname + given name in some GDS systems); truncation must follow ICAO rules and be disclosed to the passenger.","Double-barrelled surnames (e.g. Smith-Jones) are treated inconsistently across carriers — some require the hyphen, others strip it; check the specific airline's name format requirements before submitting."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-11T22:42:46.482Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:43:33.723Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/48b3a6c1-c1a5-4989-8f65-6c3c8ffa7011"}