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We booked a flight with British Airways using their website, and the fields for passenger names accepted only ASCII characters for some reason, so we couldn't enter our names exactly as shown in the passports (they have accented characters, think "č", "ř", "ž"...).

We entered the names without the accents, which matches the passports' MRZ but not the name fields on the ID pages.

Will we be accepted at check-in, considering the MRZ names match the names on the booking? Or will there be problems with the accented names in the passport?

Laurel
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Using the data from the MRZ is most certainly the best option, it’s the official transliteration of your names, and in many cases that’s actually the data they will use for any comparison.

Any reasonable variation is usually accepted anyway.

jcaron
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