On: Ask HN: Why were names of other passengers appearing in my flight details?

[nachi]

This is most definitely a bug on Google's side in parsing the passenger names out of the booking email from Germanwings.

I experienced something similar, Google thought that the Geschäftfuhrung (management) at the bottom of the booking email were my co-passengers:

http://i.imgur.com/I8V4ZQN.png (In this case, Thomas Lindner and Dr. Jochen Wallisch)

[notahacker → nachi]

I think you've probably nailed it.

Looking at the mostly-redacted names OP's screenshot I suspect the additional "passengers" Google's email has picked up are actually Dr Axel Schmidt and Oliver Wagner from Germanwings' executive board? Am I right?

[scottmcdot → notahacker]

Yes you are right! I presumed it was this guy [0]. Nice to have put this to bed.

[0] http://www.neuro.univie.ac.at/