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> given the horrendous prices some airlines demand to change the name

In practice airlines are fairly lenient concerning misspellings, out of order names, missing diacritics, etc. The name change fee applies mostly to changing the person who is flying.

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I have a one letter first name and Air New Zealand refused to book me with only one letter in my name and then equally refused to change it when it caused problems later matching my frequent flier mile account on another airline without charging the ridiculous name change fee, which the airline agent at the desk said the computer system would not allow her to waive.

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