V-Flyer

The perils of having a middle name. This has been asked a few times, I have quite a generic name but a middle name to at least distinguish it. It's on my passport (some people seem to omit this on passport).

Anyway, the name of the ticket is without the middle name. I've flown on this sort of thing before, people don't seem to care much about that.

However, the Advance passenger information seems to want this, when I was filling it in last time, I added it. It then refused to find the booking after this using the name without middle and with, which wasn't that bad because in Upper so my seat selection was ok. Now I'm in PE, and champing at the bit on OLCI to get some extra legroom seats. So I'm wary of adding it.

I believe the ESTA doesn't need the middle name, I don't think it actually had a space for it. I didn't add one just now when applying. But wouldn't the Advance passenger information want to mimic the ESTA, which means virgin shouldn't be asking for it (and actually working if you do add it)?

I always use my middle name - virginn flights, ESTA, bank accounts etc everything and have never had an issue with airline tickets, seat selection and so on. Sometimes when logging in you might have to merge your first and middles names eg Johnadam Smith

Put down exactly what's on your passport.

My wife has and uses a middle name but it's not on her passport and this gave us some issues because they didn't match.

Yes, I tried the merged names the last time, once I had added my middle name, it never retrieved the booking again.

Mrs QH has a middle name, which also appears on her passport. She never uses it for ticketing or for ESTA's and there have never been any issues.

I had to go and check.
Passports have our middle names
ESTAs do not have a place for them only first given name.
Tickets don't show middle names.
Never had a problem.
Dick D

dickydotcom wrote:I had to go and check.
Passports have our middle names
ESTAs do not have a place for them only first given name.
Tickets don't show middle names.
Never had a problem.
Dick D

Same as DDC

Having had a ponder, its pretty much down to passport and name for the ESTA, so dont think middle name is an issue in the slightest...