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Booking a Flight? Get Ready to State Sex and Age

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(Newser) – Air passengers booking flights in the US can expect some extra questions starting this weekend, the Washington Post reports. Travelers will be asked for their sex and birth date, which will be forwarded along with other information to federal officials checking watch lists. The move comes as the Transportation Security Administration takes over control of checking the lists from the airlines.

The TSA aims to be vetting 100% of domestic air passengers within six months and passengers on flights to or from the US by the end of next year. Passengers who do not provide the information will be subjected to secondary security checks, airline officials say, instead of prevented from flying, although they may be denied boarding passes after the transition period is complete.

A United gate agent checks passengers in by hand at the United Airlines terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
A United gate agent checks passengers in by hand at the United Airlines terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.   (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)
United Airlines first class passengers check in at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco.
United Airlines first class passengers check in at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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We have been assured that no passenger will be turned away or be denied the ability to travel.
- David A. Castelveter, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association of America

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Ucantusethatname
Aug 13, 09 7:59 AM CDT
"Passengers who do not provide the information will be subjected to secondary security checks . . . instead of prevented from flying. . . . They may be denied boarding passes after the transition period is complete." Hitler lives! Reply
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shonangreg
Aug 13, 09 8:19 AM CDT
So, are you calling for the Obama Administration to dismantle this Bush scheme?
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dontlikenobody
Aug 13, 09 8:37 AM CDT
Somebody's gotta dismantle it - it's a living memorial to Bush-league thinking; a large stinking mass of arrogant stupidity. OK, so I never wanted to fly again anyway.
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Serenity
Aug 13, 09 9:00 AM CDT
Considering there are a slew of male and female persons that have the same name as I do, I would hate to not be able to fly because of a mistake like that. Or if someone tried to steal my identity and buy a ticket. I have a license to drive with that info on it, why not to fly?
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Reader64481089
Aug 13, 09 9:07 AM CDT
IF "Hitler lives" as you say it was placed there by GW Bush in his long reaching Security plan for US Aviation. You can lay this at GW's doorstep where it belongs as Obama has not even been there long enough to re-address this issue like so many other tib bits GW left scattered around.
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