How come the slightest typo on a flight ticket means you won’t get on the plane/admitted into the country?

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Even correct spelled names in the in the wrong fields won’t do, like first name in surname and vice versa. Where does the problem occur? Cause you have like atleast 5 – 10 customs agents and flight staff manually watching your passport/ticket, and they should be able to conclude that the ticket is yours. Or?

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The ticket doesn’t matter. I’ve been to at least 5 countries on 5 different tickets, different airlines that had my last name spelt wrong. Travel agent’s / airlines mistake not mine.

If it’s close enough, they will allow it. The bureaucracy of 10 agents is probably related to something else. Maybe a visa issue, or they didn’t know some obscure law between your country and theirs, and the ticket get piled with everything else.

Edi:T I always travel with a copy of my receipt / payment that I made for the ticket. So if any issue happens “I paid for this, look at the receipt, not my problem you guys made a mistake”. But I never needed to to that, even though mistakes were made.

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