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Old Dec 6, 2016 | 12:27 am
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bbtrvl
 
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
The airline isn't really scaremongering passengers with this.

The real scaremongering is acting as if the operating airline for US-arriving/US-departing flights may cancel ticketed flights because a passenger hasn't submittted passport info 72 hour before travel. It is not routine.

This 72 hour DHS requirement is a requirement on operating airlines, and the DHS requirement on operating airlines just doesn't hit passengers in the way the scaremongers peddle it. US-bound flights booked within 72 hours of flight without passenger passport data simply just doesn't get the passenger booted.
Oh, I do not believe they would ever cancel a ticket because of late APIS. I'm thinking more of the times when the airline makes a mistake (usually a very expensive one) and starts digging in their CoC for a reason to avoid making it right.

I don't mean to be scaremongering, I only like to lay out the cold facts, because these are the rules of the game we're in.
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