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Traveler Charged Extra Booking Fee for Having a Long Last Name

posted by mrpg on Saturday May 12 2018, @01:32AM   
from the sorry-surnames-must-have-between-8-and-10-letters dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"A Thai Airways passenger said he was charged a $94 fee at the airport for a name change because the online booking system would not let him type his full name.

The passenger, whose name was not shared, said when he went to purchase his ticket on the Thai Airways website, his full last name would not fit in the name field. The name field only allows 25 characters for surname. The passenger tried shortening his name on the website and was finally able to buy tickets for himself and his family, the Bangkok Post reported."

Traveler charged extra booking fee for having a long last name

I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly.

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• Re:Easily avoidable. Re:Easily avoidable. (Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:22PM (1 child)

  by Subsentient (1111) on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:22PM (#678848) Homepage Journal

  If your name is longer than 255 bytes, you need to rethink a lot of things. Most importantly, why you haven't changed it yet.

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  "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

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• Re:Easily avoidable. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @12:52AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @12:52AM (#679380)

  Ditto if you are named as our similar to;
    # a German dictator who hated Jews
      # a Russian ruler who killed lots of people
    # a pedophile who declared himself a profit, killed those who would not join his religion
    # some person who may or may not have made the trains run on thyme
    # any one historic person known to be a complete bastard / rapist / murderer / dictator etc

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