Airlines requiring additional information from some domestic travelers

Airlines in August began asking some travelers to provide their dates of birth and genders when making reservations on domestic flights, under a new screening program initiated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Prompted by a congressional mandate, the program, Secure Flight, leaves it up to individual airlines and travel agencies as to how they would collect the data, but it is likely that by early 2010 all passengers on domestic commercial flights will have to provide such information.