MommyOTwins Posted July 29, 2022 #1 Share Posted July 29, 2022 We fly tomorrow for our cruise and when I went to the Alaska Air website to check in and entered the airline confirmation code from Princess, I saw all our names are showing up SUPER weird. Essentially, it looks like when princess supplied our names to Alaska Air, they smooshed together first and middle names into the first name field and added "Mr" "Mrs" or "Mstr" for my husband, me, and our kids respectively as their middle names. So... Jane Mary Doe ...is showing up on Alaska airline's check in page as: Janemary Mrs Doe And John James Doe ...is Johnjames Mr Doe I'm on hold trying to get through to Alaska airlines. Is this normal? Has anything like this happened to anyone before before? Should I keep waiting on endless hold with the airline or should I be trying to call princess instead? Anyone have any insights into this insanity? Eek! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwimum Posted July 29, 2022 #2 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Quite normal, nothing to worry about. As long as your travel document shows Jane Mary Doe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyOTwins Posted July 29, 2022 Author #3 Share Posted July 29, 2022 1 minute ago, kiwimum said: Quite normal, nothing to worry about. As long as your travel document shows Jane Mary Doe. Really? Phew that's a relief. Yes our IDs have our full names. Just so strange for it to show up that way on the check in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruizinSusan70 Posted July 29, 2022 #4 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Same exact thing happened to us on our cruise next year to Alaska via our outbound flights to Seattle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beg3yrs Posted July 29, 2022 #5 Share Posted July 29, 2022 It seems all the airlines do something like this. Don't think it's EZair that's the source of the name smooshing (I like that - name smooshing). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondogy Posted July 29, 2022 #6 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Pretty much did the same thing to us on our Delta flights. I left my middle name off all my ID's so I don't have to use it on all the forms of ID's needed to travel (i.e. Names have to be exact same on passport as it is on license.) 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare PacnGoNow Posted July 29, 2022 #7 Share Posted July 29, 2022 9 hours ago, MommyOTwins said: We fly tomorrow for our cruise and when I went to the Alaska Air website to check in and entered the airline confirmation code from Princess, I saw all our names are showing up SUPER weird. Essentially, it looks like when princess supplied our names to Alaska Air, they smooshed together first and middle names into the first name field and added "Mr" "Mrs" or "Mstr" for my husband, me, and our kids respectively as their middle names. So... Jane Mary Doe ...is showing up on Alaska airline's check in page as: Janemary Mrs Doe And John James Doe ...is Johnjames Mr Doe I'm on hold trying to get through to Alaska airlines. Is this normal? Has anything like this happened to anyone before before? Should I keep waiting on endless hold with the airline or should I be trying to call princess instead? Anyone have any insights into this insanity? Eek! No worries. This is a computer program process with a lot of airlines. Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franktown Posted July 29, 2022 #8 Share Posted July 29, 2022 It's a airline thing not Princess. Happens to my wife all the time even when she books directly with the airlines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebr.cruiser Posted July 29, 2022 #9 Share Posted July 29, 2022 It has happened to us--I worried some, but all was fine. I do think it is the airline--in our case it was American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaCruzers Posted July 29, 2022 #10 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Totally fine - don't worry! Happens all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryfat1 Posted July 30, 2022 #11 Share Posted July 30, 2022 I had the same problem with our flights for on Alaska and Delta Airline next couple of weeks with "MR" or "MRS" as our middle names for all 6 of us traveling. I actually called both airlines and Princess to ask about the situation as I didn't want TSA/US & Canadian Customs to look at us sideways with these funky names. The airlines said it's Princess fault and they can't change anything. Princess said their records are not showing any errors so there's nothing to fix. So lots of finger pointing and no real solutions. Glad we weren't the only only with this problem and not a big deal with any customs agencies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug R. Posted July 30, 2022 #12 Share Posted July 30, 2022 This has happened to me on numerous flights on a variety of airlines, both EZ Air and booked otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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