Booking a flight with a single name

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• Your name should be spelled exactly how it appears on your passport.
• Special characters are not accepted.
• Abbreviations and nicknames are not accepted.
• The combined length of your first and last name should not exceed 59 characters, including spaces.

Travelling to the UAE with a single name on the front page of your passport

If you hold a passport with only one name, first or last, and no other additional names on any other passport pages, you will not be allowed entry to the UAE as per the UAE National Advance Information Centre (NAIC) regulations. This is applicable to all nationalities travelling on tourist, visit, work, transit visas or who are visa exempt or eligible for visa on arrival travelling to the UAE, and does not apply to:

• Passengers transiting via UAE.
• Passengers with a visa (all visa types) issued by the UAE that displays additional names.
• Passengers with a valid Emirates ID card.
• Passengers with their country’s national ID card containing additional names that can be used on the passenger details.
• Passengers holding a travel document with additional names mentioned as “Observations/Annotations”.

Passports with a single or double first or last name(s) on the front page

If you have a single or double name(s) on the front page of your passport, please check the examples below to help you enter it correctly on the booking.

Passports with full name in a single field on the front page

If you have your full name in a single field on the front page containing two or more names, please check the examples below to help you enter it correctly on the booking. 

If you do not find the example applicable to you, please get in touch with us for assistance.