Comments on: British Airways do not like Spanish names http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/ repeat 4[fd 100 rt 90] Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:18:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sole http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-24869 sole Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:19:55 +0000 http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-24869 Well, I wouldn't be that sure about that. There's a lot of foreign people living in UK, can't really tell you the numbers obviously, but I read about that somewhere. In any case, there's not really an excuse for limiting customers that way, unless they are constrained by old systems and their limitations. Well, I wouldn’t be that sure about that. There’s a lot of foreign people living in UK, can’t really tell you the numbers obviously, but I read about that somewhere.

In any case, there’s not really an excuse for limiting customers that way, unless they are constrained by old systems and their limitations.

]]> By: Luke http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-24868 Luke Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:12:43 +0000 http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-24868 Well, frankly this isn't British Airways ignoring foreigners, as I know plenty of people with really long English names that would well exceed 29 letters in total. It's just a crap website. Although that said, I am unable to enter my UK phone number on the "el Corte Ingles" website because they don't accept a big enough number of digits and they also don't let me select the correct type of road I live down. Companies gear their services towards their main customers, on the English language website of British Airways, it's safe to say this would be the British. Well, frankly this isn’t British Airways ignoring foreigners, as I know plenty of people with really long English names that would well exceed 29 letters in total. It’s just a crap website.

Although that said, I am unable to enter my UK phone number on the “el Corte Ingles” website because they don’t accept a big enough number of digits and they also don’t let me select the correct type of road I live down. Companies gear their services towards their main customers, on the English language website of British Airways, it’s safe to say this would be the British.

]]> By: sole http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21794 sole Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:52:43 +0000 http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21794 "A bug in the user" -- it sounds really cruel! How different would the world be if the dominant software market wasn't anglo-saxon? “A bug in the user” — it sounds really cruel!

How different would the world be if the dominant software market wasn’t anglo-saxon?

]]> By: madra http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21346 madra Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:30:44 +0000 http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21346 it's not just british airways who are so inflexible with regard to names. i have an accented character "í" in my first name and i've lost count of the number of times web forms have told me my "name contains invalid characters". is it really so difficult for the designers of these idiotic forms to contemplate the fact that not everyone in the world has a standard US or UK style name? it’s not just british airways who are so inflexible with regard to names. i have an accented character “í” in my first name and i’ve lost count of the number of times web forms have told me my “name contains invalid characters”. is it really so difficult for the designers of these idiotic forms to contemplate the fact that not everyone in the world has a standard US or UK style name?

]]> By: blackpawn http://soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21180 blackpawn Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:54:10 +0000 http://www.soledadpenades.com/2007/02/04/british-airways-do-not-like-spanish-names/#comment-21180 ouch! i can relate but i have this problem with my address instead of my name. (it's got a whole lot of adjectives w, pkwy, se, etc). what's the worst is when a form will allow you to enter everything in but then they wind up cutting the end off when they print a label or whatever so you didn't even know ahead of time there was going to be a problem. i have to admit though as a coder i wouldn't have thought to allow for four names. sounds like a bug in the user! ;) ouch! i can relate but i have this problem with my address instead of my name. (it’s got a whole lot of adjectives w, pkwy, se, etc). what’s the worst is when a form will allow you to enter everything in but then they wind up cutting the end off when they print a label or whatever so you didn’t even know ahead of time there was going to be a problem.

i have to admit though as a coder i wouldn’t have thought to allow for four names. sounds like a bug in the user! ;)

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