Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Every major alliance carrier to the US flies lots of passengers on flights booked 2-24 hours in advance of travel, and the 72 hour thing alone doesn't result in the scare-mongering outcomes people put up about such travels.
Nearly all of them are OK with receiving APIS information at time of booking when within 72 hours, and state so explicitly.
It would be stupid for an airline to raise a fuss over late APIS information of paying customers. Sometimes airline agents do stupid things.
I prefer to dot my i's and cross my t's. At least when it only takes a minute extra. Then I always have a leg to stand on when (not
if) someone else screws up badly.
I do admit that it does seem like the airline is scaremongering people into thinking that CBP is requiring this.