 Name change question - update -
"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uigA2Z+aNqFDFAo+@donald.internetpolicynews.co .uk...
> In message <43164fbb$0$250$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews .net>, at
> 20:48:44 on Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Miss L. Toe <missltoemissltoe@m>
> remarked:
> >> No one questioned the difference in the names, the only query
encountered
> >> was why my credit card had a different number to the one used to
purchase
> >> the BA e- ticket.
> >
> >Why is that any of their business ??
>
> It's a lame attempt at reducing credit card fraud. It's easy to quote
> someone else's number online, not so easy to turn up at the airport
> carrying the actual card. (The railways have exactly the same idea when
> picking up pre-paid tickets from a machine).
>
> Where the airlines have an advantage, though, is that they insist on ID
> for all their passengers, so if the ticket does turn out to have been
> bought with a "stolen" card, they know exactly who dunnit.
My half sister goes by her father's surname, which is different from mine. I
buy her and the rest of my family tickets, even family friends, and they
repay me by cash/cheque as I'm more Internet savvy and able to find cheap
low cost airline details that beat travel agent prices than anyone in my
family. In fact I've bought more flights for other people than I've bought
for myself.
Marcus
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