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Secure Flight

How Secure Flight Affects You

Under the Secure Flight rule, commercial airline passengers will see many benefits to air travel such as enhanced security and consistent customer service. Under Secure Flight, you will also notice that airlines will request additional information from you when making a reservation to fly within, into, out of, or over the continental United States.

Under the Secure Flight Final Rule, TSA will require airlines to collect and send to TSA the following information:

• Full Name (required)
• Date of Birth (required)
• Gender (required)
• Redress Number (optional)

Passengers are only required to provide their full name, date of birth, and gender to allow TSA to perform watch list matching. TSA is not requiring you to provide other information such as passport information to aircraft operators. However, covered aircraft operators must send such information to TSA if it is provided by the passenger. Providing the optional information is beneficial to you as it helps ensure you are not misidentified as a person on a watch list. Secure Flight does NOT assign a score to individuals, use commercial data or predict behavior.

After making a reservation, most passengers would not experience any differences under the Final Rule from the way they travel today. Under the Secure Flight rule, as is the case today, a passenger may be selected for additional screening at the airport, or may be deemed ineligible to fly if his or her name matches one found on a watch list. Secure Flight will strive to facilitate air travel for legitimate passengers by reducing the number of individuals who are misidentified.

For those who encounter misidentification, Secure Flight will help prevent watch list name confusion by using DHS TRIP, the central processing point for redress inquiries. Requests received online will be routed for redress to the appropriate DHS components. Components will review the request and reach a determination about a traveler's status. Secure Flight will use the results of the redress process in its watch list matching process to help prevent future delays for misidentified passengers.

Tips for Traveling

• Provide the required and requested information when making a reservation to fly. This information may help prevent misidentifications during the watch list matching process and help expedite your travel.
• Be sure to bring the appropriate government-issued documentation when flying. Many issues related to misidentification can be resolved by providing identification. Acceptable forms of identification could include an unexpired passport issued by a foreign government; an unexpired document issued by a U.S. Federal, State, or tribal government that includes the individual’s full name, date of birth, photograph; or other documents that TSA may designate as valid verifying identity documents.
• Complete the DHS TRIP application process if you believe you were mistakenly identified as a match to the watch list. By doing so, you can help prevent future misidentifications and delays at the airport.
• Arrive at the airport with ample time to check in before your flight. For most individuals, Secure Flight will expedite the check in process by reducing misidentifications, but some passengers may need to check in at the ticket counter and provide identification to proceed with check in.