Originally Posted by
WHBM
This simplistic description fails to point out that those return halves of tickets had been PAID FOR. Why shouldn't seats/ticket which have been paid for be used ?
It is as if I book and prepay for theatre tickets as Sandy Smith, and when I get there they say "oh, your credit card says MR A SMITH, you will have to pay again to sit in those seats". Which would be an obvious and outright fraud.
It is Governments that require the full name as shown on the passport.
There is also a security issue. The airline, and receiving/transit government wants to know who the passengers are. They have blacklists which they don't want circumvented, probably for good reason. Sandy Smith might be OK, but MR A SMITH could be a black hat.