Thursday, August 09, 2007

New Flight Rules

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced that starting six months from now airlines operating international flights will be required to send the government their passenger list data before the planes take off rather than afterwards, as is now the case.

The early sharing of passenger information was designed to give U.S. authorities more time to identify and remove from flights suspected terrorists like Richard Reid, who attempted to light a shoe bomb on a trans-Atlantic flight in Dec. 2001.

"Now the airlines give us their manifests after the plane has left the ground and that is too late," Chertoff said.

  Yahoo

I suppose we will be sitting on the runway for a while longer then.


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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