Secure Flight is a program to provide uniform watch list matching by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The mission of the Secure Flight program is to enhance the security of domestic and international commercial air travel through the use of improved watch list matching to identify known and suspected terrorists.

Under the Secure Flight program you must provide your travel airline with information about each passenger in order to obtain a boarding pass for that passenger. You must also provide this information for non-travelers if they require admittance to the secured area of the airport. The required information includes full name as it appears on a government-issued ID, date of birth, and gender. If you have a Redress number (see below) you should also provide it.

You do not need to provide this information while making your trip reservation. You can provide this information to your airline anytime before your trip. You can also provide information for some passengers now and later update your reservation to add information for the other passengers. However, providing this information now will minimize potential travel disruptions and eliminate one step from your travel preparations.

Secure Flight is being implemented in phases over a multi-year period. During this time your specific airline or trip itinerary may not be covered under the Secure Flight program. However, there is no harm in providing this information even if your travel is not included within Secure Flight. Your airline will ignore this information if not needed by the TSA. If your airline is in the Secure Flight program, the airline will send your information to the TSA, and the TSA will compare it to their No Fly and Selectee watch lists. By providing this information in advance, most passengers will not experience any differences from the way they traveled before the Secure Flight program. To learn more about Secure Flight please visit www.tsa.gov/secureflight.

Note: We will not be responsible for any travel disruption or travel delay if you do not provide Secure Flight information, if you enter inaccurate or incomplete information, or if you are required to provide additional information to the airline during check-in. If you choose to enter Secure Flight information now for any passenger, you must provide the passenger's full name as well as both date of birth and gender. (If you enter a Redress number you must also provide full name, date of birth, and gender). Partial data for any passenger will be ignored and will not be included in your reservation.

The aforementioned changes are federally mandated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration and are set forth in the Secure Flight Final Rule, published in the Federal Register Volume 73, Number 209. To learn more visit www.tsa.gov, keywords Secure Flight.

Privacy notice (found in Section 1560.103 of the Secure Flight Final Rule): The Transportation Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security requires airlines to collect information from you for purposes of watch list screening, under the authority of 49 U.S.C. section 114, and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Providing this information is voluntary; however, if it is not provided, you may be subject to additional screening or denied transport or authorization to enter a sterile area. TSA may share information you provide with law enforcement or intelligence agencies or others under its published system of records notice. For more on TSA Privacy policies, or to view the system of records notice and the privacy impact assessment, please see TSA's Web site at www.tsa.gov.

What are the benefits of Secure Flight?
Secure Flight provides numerous benefits to the traveling public. First, Secure Flight protects sensitive watch list data. The program also enables officials to address security threats sooner, keeping air travel safer. By implementing one watch list matching system, the program provides a fair and consistent matching process across all airlines and reduces the chance of being misidentified. Secure Flight offers an improved redress process, so that those who are mistakenly matched to the watch list can avoid future problems.

Protecting passenger privacy
The privacy of individuals' information is a cornerstone of Secure Flight. TSA collects the minimum amount of personal information necessary to conduct effective watch list matching. Furthermore, personal data is collected, used, distributed, stored, and disposed of in accordance with stringent guidelines and all applicable privacy laws and regulations.

Redress - for passengers who feel they have been misidentified Those who believe they have been mistakenly matched to a name on the watch list are invited to apply for Redress through the Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP). Secure Flight uses the results of the redress process in its watch list matching process, thus preventing future misidentifications for passengers who may have a name that's similar to an individual on the watch list. For more information on the redress process, visit www.dhs.gov/trip.