Airline 'ban' on long name

[oz_mark]

A WOMAN was stopped from boarding a budget jet — because her name was too LONG.

Ulrika Örtegren-Kärjenmäki would not fit on Ryanair’s boarding pass.
And dots on the letters invalidated it in security checks at Stansted Airport, Essex.

Airline 'ban' on long name | The Sun |News

 

[albatross710]

I guess any database has some programming limitations....but

surely someone with a brain could work it out.

I certainly would not have forked out the extra GBP.

 

[possumoz]

I followed a few of the papers links to further articles on Ryanair...and we thought our media was picking on Qantas ! deary me! but then again compared to the talk about British low cost airlines..makes me feel like Qantas treats us like Gods!

 

[Mal]

I wonder what they would do if a bloke called Mr Air had a son called Ryan:

Mr Ryan Air.

Hmmm. Would they try and sue for trademark infringement?

 

[straitman]

I wonder what they would do if a bloke called Mr Air had a son called Ryan:

Mr Ryan Air.

Hmmm. Would they try and sue for trademark infringement?

Who :?:

The airline or the bloke :?:

 

[trooper]

I have some sympathy for the airline here.... is it really that unreasonable to ask folks to use the last of their surnames for such purposes?

What do they have on their credit card one wonders...

I mean - where's the limit?

Tarquin Fin-tin Lim-bim Bustop Fatang Fatang ole Biscuit-Barrel? :mrgreen:

Or - a real name - Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache Tollemache...

(No kidding!)

As for the umlauts (or whatever they are called in that language).. It seems reasonable for a European airline to have ways of dealing with such NORMAL European matters.. surely? Poor planning there....

 

[dajop]

I have some sympathy for the airline here.... is it really that unreasonable to ask folks to use the last of their surnames for such purposes?

Are you being serious or sarcastic? I know the media doesn't always provide the full story - so it is difficult to know what has really gone on here. Sounds like there could be more to it than the report indicates. BUT if the airline allows it to be booked in that name - it should allow a BP to be issued in the name.

 

[Mal]

Who :?:

The airline or the bloke :?:

Airline

 

[trooper]

Fair call..... catching such things at time of booking would clearly be the best solution....

 

[Hvr]

I have some sympathy for the airline here.... is it really that unreasonable to ask folks to use the last of their surnames for such purposes?

What do they have on their credit card one wonders...

(snip)

As for the umlauts (or whatever they are called in that language).. It seems reasonable for a European airline to have ways of dealing with such NORMAL European matters.. surely? Poor planning there....

No sympathy for the airlines here, especially when they are very strict on having identity documents matching credit cards etc.

If they wont use a computer program capable of coping with a legitimate name they they shouldn't be in a high tech business such as flying aircraft.

 

[medhead]

so if the person with a brain who was working the next day, who arrange an alternative pass, had of been working on the first day this never would have made the paper

 

[Nigelinoz]

Well I've never been denied boarding but the Qantas system always cuts
the last 2 letters of my surname when printing BP's.and my surname only
has 14 letters.