Sisters miss trip to Turkey because of their names

A pair of women were stuck at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago for nearly three days. They say that their names were apparently too long to confirm the reservation. "We were cancelled off the flight because our last name is too long," said Jennifer Yatiri Moravec-Flores.

Her sister, Elizabeth Kori Moravec-Flores, said, "I was upset. I was delirious earlier. I was laughing, I was psychotic, I almost lost it. Admittedly, their names are 26 letters each, often using two lines on their passports and drivers licences.

On Tuesday, they flew without problems from Salt Lake City to O'Hare, but when connecting to Turkish Airlines in Chicago, their confirmed reservation to Istanbul through on-line booker Orbitz was denied



Paperwork for their reservations should have had the name "Moravec-Flores," but instead it read only "Moravec-F." Orbitz verified that the airline told the sisters their last names were too long for its system. "It does seem absurd that my name is too long. It's my name," Elizabeth said. "Other people have longer names than us."

After more than two days of negotiating with ticket agents, wandering the airport and waiting in stand-by lines for a possible flight, the surprisingly upbeat Moravec-Flores girls were set to fly home to Salt Lake City on Friday.

But their flight home was cancelled because of the weather. The sisters did catch a later flight and got home to Utah on Friday.

With news video.