Help with flight!
Booked a KLM flight and now stressing about the name situation.
My passport surname is “Johnson” and my given names are “Michael David”.
But the ticket only says “David Johnson” — it completely leaves out “Michael”.
So the surname matches exactly, and “David” is genuinely one of my passport given names, just not the first one.
I’ve called KLM multiple times and they keep saying it would cost around €500 to reissue/change the ticket, which I genuinely can’t afford.
What makes me more worried is that during the online passport scan/check-in part, it kept recognising my full given names as Michael David instead of just David. I ended up covering the “Michael” part during the scan and it actually went through because I assumed it wouldn’t matter as long as David was still one of my legal given names.
Flight is still about a month away. Has anyone actually flown in this exact situation with KLM or another airline where the ticket used the second given name instead of the first? Did check-in staff allow it or deny boarding?
Trying to decide whether to risk showing up early at the airport and explaining that “David” is still part of my legal given names.