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#190886 by Darren Wheeler
15 Nov 2007, 13:18
Looks like a bit of Daily Mail rabble-rousing

Most of that information is already supplied at time of booking and the actual pax will not need to supply it. I'll wait and see what the actual legislation/regulations say.
#190890 by flyingfox
15 Nov 2007, 13:43
Agreed

but there will be a significant costs behind this no matter how its finally implemented, I doubt this can be absorbed fully, as you say lets just see how they plan to roll this out.
#190894 by ZippyUK
15 Nov 2007, 14:12
I still don't see passenger weight on the list ;)
#190900 by flyingfox
15 Nov 2007, 15:10
Yeap there going to need to make it 54 questions! That will augment very well into the obese flight tax plan, and now they can have a pair of scales at check in too!!
#190901 by slinky09
15 Nov 2007, 15:10
Ha ha ha - that'll make some software company very, very rich piecing together Government systems to provide the information.

Expect it to be watered down cnsiderably / or more likely come in to being after we're all eaten by worms or burnt as appropriate!
#190912 by gingerflyer
15 Nov 2007, 17:18
a little bit wierd that they want frequent flyer details, including miles flown and addresses! A lot of information, that is going to give someone a nightmare to try and sift through!
#190913 by David
15 Nov 2007, 17:32
How are you meant to know seat number or bag tag number before you fly. Or remember the name of the person at the travel agency who you booked with ?[?]

[:?]

David
#190914 by flyingfox
15 Nov 2007, 17:38
One assumes they will capture a lot of the original information at point of booking, then the next batch at check in, hopefully all these booking systems will link up (hahahaha). ItÕs the last minute bookings that will be a headache, the ones where your told at 1700 your going to IAD in the morning[B)]
#190917 by catsilversword
15 Nov 2007, 18:38
Originally posted by ZippyUK
I still don't see passenger weight on the list ;)



Which is about the only thing not asked! I recoiled in horror when I read the list - I know we already have to supply some of this info, but I was really affronted at some of the questions, which seem to have less than nothing to do with security and everything to do with unnecessary big brother-ing.

More tax, just wait....
#190918 by catsilversword
15 Nov 2007, 18:39
Originally posted by David
How are you meant to know seat number or bag tag number before you fly. Or remember the name of the person at the travel agency who you booked with ?[?]

[:?]

David


Also assumes people use agents - which many of us don't. And as for when it was booked, what class - what the **** is it to do with anyone.........



[:0]
#190939 by woggledog
15 Nov 2007, 23:29
Bloody hell.... I'll be answering 'Wibble' to as many questions as possible. This is just plane (plain!) stupid!
#190941 by HighFlyer
15 Nov 2007, 23:40
Originally posted by woggledog
Bloody hell.... I'll be answering 'Wibble' to as many questions as possible. This is just plane (plain!) stupid!


LOL Is that with a pencil up each nostril and your underpants on your head perchance? :D

Thanks,
Sarah
#190949 by VS-EWR
16 Nov 2007, 02:08
Ew, this will not making traveling any happier. I wonder if these questions will be asked by individual agents who then record all the information on a computer or whether you will have to waste time filling a card out with all the information. Either way it's not very efficient

Two of the weirdest questions on there are probably "check-in agent's initials" (how will this help anything given the relatively small amount of initial combinations that are possible), and "frequent flyer information including miles flown and addresses" (who the heck knows the number of miles on their FF account at all time? I sure don't).
#191104 by goanmad
17 Nov 2007, 15:49
Are you given the "Anything you say may be taken down and used in evidence......" before or after the questions have been asked.[:w]

And if you don't answer the questions in the way you should do, or you tell the person "NO COMMENT" do you not get to fly?[V]

There's anti terrosim laws and there's Communism, and this sounds like a bit of each, where has the fredom to travel disappeared to?[n]

Then there will be the even longer queue's[:0]

You either have a passport allowing you to travel, or it is taken away from you to prevent you from travelling?[?]
#191123 by VS-EWR
17 Nov 2007, 18:47
Originally posted by goanmad


There's anti terrosim laws and there's Communism, and this sounds like a bit of each, where has the fredom to travel disappeared to?[n]



Not to be picky (my history buff side speaking), but communism has nothing to do with this, it's more totalitarianism or fascism. I know you're thinking probably of the USSR, but that wasn't a true communist state.[:I]
#191142 by Bill S
17 Nov 2007, 22:39
I am amazed at the reaction to this issue.
Can anyone identify a single question that is not already known about everyone travelling to the US?

All this is, is a rationalisation of an existing database!

One possible - email address - but that one also shows that not every question can/must be answered!
#191152 by easygoingeezer
17 Nov 2007, 23:19
I don't have a problem with any of the questions.

theres one missing though

"do you have or have you ever had an amenity pack fetish"[}:)]
#191167 by mitchja
18 Nov 2007, 04:03
I've no problems with this as I have nothing to hide.

It's only the same as API when flying to the US where they actually extract a lot for info than just the questions you answer for that. I believe most of that info is included in API now anyway.

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