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Shifting gears a bit, why are some airlines worse at using the terrorist watch lists than others are?

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Shifting gears a bit, why are some airlines worse at using the terrorist watch lists than others are?

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A. Some airlines, everybody’s got their own systems, and some are better capable of doing the matching than others and from their point of view, why would I go and invest a whole lot in watch-list matching when Secure Flight is coming and it’ll all go to the government anyway? So there hasn’t been a big incentive for them to invest their money in better watch-list matching. The problem is that all those people that think they’re on a watch list, that’s a huge public perception problem and it won’t be cured until we get Secure Flight up. Secure Flight takes the watch list matching into the government. Right now we send the watch lists out to the airlines, they do the matching. That’s the problem we’re talking about and when Secure Flight’s up we won’t be sending the watch list out. And therefore from a security point of view that’s better and also from a matching point of view it’s better. Q. DHS is trying to get the airlines to do the fingerprint gathering for the exit portion of the e

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