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I have Bulgaria-Turkey dual citizenship with different names (not even a word is matching in surname or name, totally different, only birthdays are matching in two passports basically). I do live in Singapore (I have a residency visa w my Turkish passport & name). I have a coming trip to Europe, and we will be visiting Germany, France and Portugal, for about 2 weeks. Since I have Bulgarian passport (EU citizen), I have freedom of travel in EU countries.

My questions are: 1. Under which name I should book my tickets? Or should I book w different names for internal EU layover flights? Or it doesn't matter?

My plan is initially:

  1. Book ticket w (home country (SG)), Turkish passport (since I have SG residency).
  2. Airline check-in, show them my Bulgarian passport (EU).
  3. At Immigration, show Turkish (TR) passport w Residency when leave.
  4. Arrive Germany, show BG passport at immigration.
  5. Flying to France, at check-in, show Bulgarian passport (but for name mismatch, I show TR passport, or I book my ticket with BG passport for internal EU flights is better?)
  6. At immigration, show BG passport (my worry is at immigration if they wanna check my ticket & BG passport, they will see mismatch names, and I need to explain them dual citizenship).
  7. Arrive France, show BG passport at immigration.
  8. Flying to Portugal, at check-in, show BG passport (again for name mismatch, I show TR passport, or I book my ticket w BG passport for internal EU flights? basically the same thing as #5)
  9. At immigration, show BG passport (Again, same concerns as #6, and may need to explain them dual citizenship).
  10. Arrive Portugal, show BG passport at immigration.
  11. Flying back to SG, at check-in, show TR passport since i have a residency visa. (this time name is matching)
  12. At immigration show BG passport (Again, same concerns as #6, ticket and name in BG passport not matching)
  13. Arrive SG, show TR passport at immigration.

Please let me know if my plan sounds correct.

In summary,

  1. A) should I follow same name booking ( in this case home country (SG) w TR passport) for all flights?
  2. B) or should I book EU flights w BG passport separately?
  3. C) or should I just book all flights w BG passport since they are the majority of flights in this case?

Besides above questions, If you have any other suggestions, I would like to hear them as well. Thanks in advance. Cheers

frank_black
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    Use the same name on the tickets as the passport you're planning to show the airlines. Immigration usually doesn't care about your flight ticket. – lambshaanxy Mar 08 '19 at 08:42
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    I agree with @jpatokal, but maybe you should show also the other passport to airline (they will often check for visa). How different are the names? [If just transliterated, translated, simplified, similar sound or new surname because marriage, it is not a problem, they can relate the two persons]. – Giacomo Catenazzi Mar 08 '19 at 09:56
  • They are totally different name and surname, not even a word is matching. Only birthday is matching in two passports basically. Difference from other question mentioned is this travel is involving from non-home country travelling to another and multiple destinations and returning back to non-home country again. – frank_black Mar 08 '19 at 14:35

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