So when exactly did these changes take place? The reason I ask is that my brother, sister and I all flew to a funeral in another state a couple of months ago. I made the online reservations for all three of us. I made an error in my sisters legal name (the one on her drivers license); her legal name is Judith, but we have called her Jude for over 40 years, and I made her reservation in the name of Jude.
We got to the airport and discovered the error but when we went through security and we explained the difference, they said "no problem" and let her through.
I can't stand all the new regulations either, my 84 y/o father-in-law (in a wheel chair and tubing inserted into his stomach for a food pump) would be required to undergo a strip search every time he tried to fly from his summer home to his Florida fhome or the winter...go figure! He did have a suspicious name though, (Abbott)! []