Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Secure Flight is crap...don't pay it any attention...and you don't need to do the 'registration' with your airline unless they force it to complete the registration.
There is no checking of your secure flight inputs against your PNR at the checkpoint - just make sure your boarding pass name matches your ID name, although the absence or inclusion of a middle name on one or the other is not an issue. The screener has absolutely no way of knowing what information you gave SF - for all they know, you could have named yourself 'Baba Ganouch' on their system.
My DL has my middle name...my BP does not. No issues. I have not 'registered' for SF with my airline. No issues.
I've stopped providing my data too as it does not appear to be mandatory at this point.
In fact, I just used online check-in for flights tomorrow morning where I didn't submit the Secure Flight data. Are any booking outlets making it mandatory yet?
Best thing for the OP is to make sure the ticket name matches the ID name. I've seen the TSA get shirty over differences like Bill vs William, Steve vs Steven vs Stephen, etc.
My DL is LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME, MI .. I just provide first and last names for my tickets.