Travel agent didn't append MR to my name and my name ends in MS. This caused my first name to be put as Ms on...
Whenever I book a flight through any travel agency/website; they always make a data entry of my name as "BADWAL/SHUMSMR". However, this time I decided to book with Expedia India; and they just inputted my name as "BADWAL/SHUMS" without appending the MR post-fix.
Due to this, when I check my ticket details on the British Airways website, my name shows up as Ms. Shu Badwal; this is probably because my name ends with MS. Would this cause me to have any problems while checking in?
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Whenever I book a flight through any travel agency/website; they always make a data entry of my name as "BADWAL/SHUMSMR". However, this time I decided to book with Expedia India; and they just inputted my name as "BADWAL/SHUMS" without appending the MR post-fix.
Due to this, when I check my ticket details on the British Airways website, my name shows up as Ms. Shu Badwal; this is probably because my name ends with MS. Would this cause me to have any problems while checking in?
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Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago
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Whenever I book a flight through any travel agency/website; they always make a data entry of my name as "BADWAL/SHUMSMR". However, this time I decided to book with Expedia India; and they just inputted my name as "BADWAL/SHUMS" without appending the MR post-fix.
Due to this, when I check my ticket details on the British Airways website, my name shows up as Ms. Shu Badwal; this is probably because my name ends with MS. Would this cause me to have any problems while checking in?
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Whenever I book a flight through any travel agency/website; they always make a data entry of my name as "BADWAL/SHUMSMR". However, this time I decided to book with Expedia India; and they just inputted my name as "BADWAL/SHUMS" without appending the MR post-fix.
Due to this, when I check my ticket details on the British Airways website, my name shows up as Ms. Shu Badwal; this is probably because my name ends with MS. Would this cause me to have any problems while checking in?
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Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago
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Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago
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Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago
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This will almost certainly not cause you any issues, and if it does they are problems with will be able to be fixed very easily by the BA staff.
There is no requirement to append "MR", "MRS", "MS" or similar to the name on a ticket, although it still does occur sometimes. Both the versions with and without the title are completely valid.
In this case the BA website is seemingly attempting to parse your name, and simply displaying it incorrectly. As long as the ticket itself has a valid version of your name then at most this might cause a few second delay when checking in - although I'd suspect that even that is extremely unlikely.
Although it's less rare now, it used to be that the title was put before the firstname, and frequently only an initial was used for the first name. My first name starts with "S" and I am male, so my tickets often became SURNAME/MRS and more than once I was addressed as "Misses Surname", however it never caused any issues other than some very minor confusion.
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This will almost certainly not cause you any issues, and if it does they are problems with will be able to be fixed very easily by the BA staff.
There is no requirement to append "MR", "MRS", "MS" or similar to the name on a ticket, although it still does occur sometimes. Both the versions with and without the title are completely valid.
In this case the BA website is seemingly attempting to parse your name, and simply displaying it incorrectly. As long as the ticket itself has a valid version of your name then at most this might cause a few second delay when checking in - although I'd suspect that even that is extremely unlikely.
Although it's less rare now, it used to be that the title was put before the firstname, and frequently only an initial was used for the first name. My first name starts with "S" and I am male, so my tickets often became SURNAME/MRS and more than once I was addressed as "Misses Surname", however it never caused any issues other than some very minor confusion.
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This will almost certainly not cause you any issues, and if it does they are problems with will be able to be fixed very easily by the BA staff.
There is no requirement to append "MR", "MRS", "MS" or similar to the name on a ticket, although it still does occur sometimes. Both the versions with and without the title are completely valid.
In this case the BA website is seemingly attempting to parse your name, and simply displaying it incorrectly. As long as the ticket itself has a valid version of your name then at most this might cause a few second delay when checking in - although I'd suspect that even that is extremely unlikely.
Although it's less rare now, it used to be that the title was put before the firstname, and frequently only an initial was used for the first name. My first name starts with "S" and I am male, so my tickets often became SURNAME/MRS and more than once I was addressed as "Misses Surname", however it never caused any issues other than some very minor confusion.
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This will almost certainly not cause you any issues, and if it does they are problems with will be able to be fixed very easily by the BA staff.
There is no requirement to append "MR", "MRS", "MS" or similar to the name on a ticket, although it still does occur sometimes. Both the versions with and without the title are completely valid.
In this case the BA website is seemingly attempting to parse your name, and simply displaying it incorrectly. As long as the ticket itself has a valid version of your name then at most this might cause a few second delay when checking in - although I'd suspect that even that is extremely unlikely.
Although it's less rare now, it used to be that the title was put before the firstname, and frequently only an initial was used for the first name. My first name starts with "S" and I am male, so my tickets often became SURNAME/MRS and more than once I was addressed as "Misses Surname", however it never caused any issues other than some very minor confusion.
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This will almost certainly not cause you any issues, and if it does they are problems with will be able to be fixed very easily by the BA staff.
There is no requirement to append "MR", "MRS", "MS" or similar to the name on a ticket, although it still does occur sometimes. Both the versions with and without the title are completely valid.
In this case the BA website is seemingly attempting to parse your name, and simply displaying it incorrectly. As long as the ticket itself has a valid version of your name then at most this might cause a few second delay when checking in - although I'd suspect that even that is extremely unlikely.
Although it's less rare now, it used to be that the title was put before the firstname, and frequently only an initial was used for the first name. My first name starts with "S" and I am male, so my tickets often became SURNAME/MRS and more than once I was addressed as "Misses Surname", however it never caused any issues other than some very minor confusion.
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Out of curiosity, is it normal in Indian data entry to affix the honorific "Mr." Or "Ms." as the last 2 characters in the last(final) name, like Kalpana Chawlams?
– Harper
4 hours ago
Well, actually in this case; a normal data entry would be "CHAWLA/KALPANAMS" The first name would come after the last name and MS or MR would be appended to the first name.
– Shums Badwal
3 hours ago