Do you need to have your middle name on flight tickets for checking in?

Hmm, I booked my tickets under "Steve" and my passport is "Stephen". Virgin said unless they changed the booking I would not fly. This was to Vegas, where the US immigration is a super serious business indeed.
 
Pinter75 said:
Hmm, I booked my tickets under "Steve" and my passport is "Stephen". Virgin said unless they changed the booking I would not fly. This was to Vegas, where the US immigration is a super serious business indeed.
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This is what the airlines mean by 'exact name'. ie, name on passport. Not nickname, shortening of name, funny spelling of name etc. Reason being they need to correlate it with your passport and their passenger lists, and also for flights to the US have to send a heck of a lot of data on passengers and what not. 'Exact name' doesn't have anything to do with middle names, religious names, family names, etc :)
 
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