Oh, you funny Americans! Don't you know that your country demands that the airlines collect first night information from us foreigners to let us onboard the plane (together with name/gender/birthday/passport info)? If the airlines don't comply with that, they risk having to transport us back on their dime when we don't get through immigration into your contry to spend our business and tourist $s...

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...blic/en_gb#usa
http://www.lufthansa.com/de/en/Data-...on-for-the-USA
http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel_info...ing_to_the_US/