10-02-2009
06:44 PM
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You state:
In addition to ensuring that the name provided when you book your travel matches
the government ID (state issued drivers license or passport)
It is actually impossible to provide a name that is always used for booking and which will match every form of ID I possess. Passports require all given names to be shown in full. Driver's licenses (at least in my state) can only display a single middle initial - useless for anyone who actually uses a middle name or has more than one - and do not allow embedded spaces (e.g. van Damme) or hyphens. Airline bookings typically also have restrictions on how the name can be formatted, which may or may not match one of these.
Whatever format I choose, it will never match *both* of these IDs.
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