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>Using a space, the parsing is unambiguous, however not all agents put a space, thus if instead the agent types:

>Then the command will be parsed as (NM, 1, ELADAWY, A, MR) to be "helpful".

And that's why doing some things for "convenience's sake" is BS. If a travel agent can't type a space between the name and the title then they shouldn't be a travel agent

Or if they don't double check it was entered correctly (which ok, in some terminals might have been a bit annoying)

I have two last names, GDSs just concatenates them together. Weird, but it works.




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