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Again, thank you all for your input.  I cancelled and rebooked with fees because the agents at both Air New Zealand and American said my personal data had been entered into their systems with my first name spelled incorrectly by Princess and that would LIKELY be an issue with gate agents and/or TSA.  Has nothing to do with the order of anything, initial, full middle or otherwise.  Sounded to me like a simple typo or someone failing to hit the Space bar between first, middle, last or whatever.  Travel agent and Princess assured me, but would NOT GUARANTEE me, there should be no problem.  Perhaps I was scammed, but a 70 year old woman (who is already subjected to body searches at every TSA stop because of lots of metal in my limbs) traveling alone halfway around the world and back wants to be guaranteed non-eventful boardings.  I had been on the phone with my agent and Princess for at least 7 hours in 3 days.  Enough.  

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Thanks for the info.  My issue is a little different.  My eTickets list FIRSTNAMEMIDDLEINITIALSPACEMSSPACELASTNAME.  My passport spells out my full middle name (no middle initial).  In both AA and ANZ data bases, my first name was showing as Shelliel with no middle initial or full name.  The airlines agents are the ones who cautioned me about potential problems boarding.  My travel agents and Princess thought it would present no problems BUT THEY WOULD NOT GUARANTEE it.  And my point here is that Princess should have booked my flights with the passport information they require when you book their cruises.  Period.

Regarding my post yesterday about Princess EZAir misspelling my name:  First, I apologize for naming the travel agent.  Didn’t know the rules.  That being said, the travel agency (and three of their agents) were nothing but helpful.  My issue is with Princess.  Secondly, for the person who asked how my name was misspelled, it was spelled “Shelliel”, exactly as entered on my flight booking.  My name is Shellie.  My middle name is Lee.  My Princess cruise  was booked by Shellie Lee, the name on my passport.  All flight arrangements were made on Princess Cruise Personalizer.  For international flights, our identification for boarding flights, TSA clearance, Immigration, etc., is with passport, correct?  Why, then, was my flight booked for Shelliel?  Not Shellie Lee.  Not Shelliel Lee.  My conversations with both American Airlines and Air New Zealand told me this mistake could not be corrected without rebooking and both said it was likely that either the gate agents or TSA agents would not allow boarding the international flights because of the mismatch.  My “advocates” (Princess and travel agents) insisted this was not going to be a problem.  After another two hour call yesterday with both Princess and my travel agent, I knew I would get nowhere and, in order to get some sleep in the next month, I had to cancel the booked flights.  The penalty was hefty and I lost the seat upgrade premium I had paid directly to Air New Zealand.  This boils down to a financially painful way of finding holes in seemingly seamless processes.  

Considering 2019 NZ cruises from Sydney and Melbourne. Last year’s Sydney embarkation was extremely taxing...very hot and very disorganized and I prefer to not experience that again. Anyone have an opinion as to which port is more organized (cruising Princess Feb 2019)? Thanks!

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