Originally Posted by
oneofthosepeopleyouloveto hate
Well, as I speculated elsewhere, I believe in the next 3-5 years we'll move to some sort of registered traveler program in which screening will be greatly expedited, if not eliminated altogether, for participants.
The key to making this work is to be able to identify passengers with a high degree of accuracy. I believe what we're seeing now is TSA's attempts to "get the bugs out of the system" before any drastic, and potentially risky, changes are implemented.
Well the US already has some form of this already (the registered part anyways). Passengers flying into the country are required to register to enter. I always have to supply my advance passenger information that informs the government of the exact street address of where I'll be staying, my passport number, gender, date of expiration, birthday, full name etc. If I don't supply it, I won't be allowed to fly. What I really dislike about it, other than the obvious, is that the information is supplied to the airlines. How safe is my information when it's associated with my PNR?