These tickets were "free" via CC points or I would have booked directly with the airline. But 2 grand is quite a "savings" IF it works out in the end. I have a little over a month before the flight. I'm going to give BA until Monday to reply via email (I wanted something in writing).

But your little equation helped me understand exactly how my name got so dorked up. My middle name ends in "DRA", which, it turns out, appears to be a Spanish abbreviation for "Female Doctor." So, Michael McKendra was parsed (???) to become Dra Michaelmcken, despite the fact that I had to provide my home country (USA) and my gender (male) for the same damned booking.

I had no idea such shitty software could actually make it to production.