Originally Posted by
bbtrvl
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.
If an airline rep brings up the COC to deny transport, the airline/airline rep has almost certainly decided to do what it has done without even fishing around for an excuse related to a "72 hours rule". If the 72-hour DHS thing for airlines is really something for a passenger to worry about, then that passenger almost certainly has bigger problems than just the absence of passport info in the PNR at 72 hours prior to scheduled flight departure.
Putting in passport data "too early" can sometimes cause more problems than leaving it out until showing up at the airport to check-in with the passport. That's a cold fact too, and it is more of an issue than not putting in the data online 72 hours or more before the trip. Errors from manually entering passport data is more commonly causing hassles for passengers than machine-reading-based entries of erroneous passport data. Another reason to do this with a check-in kiosk or check-in agent at the airport at time of at-airport check-in? Perhaps.