US presses European airlines on data access

The US has imposed a new deadline of 12 September on European airlines to give it access to the Passenger Name Record data (PNR) of those travelling to the US, otherwise they will face fines or lose landing rights.

Airline companies among them Air France, BA and Iberia, have been supplying the US with this information since 5 March 2003, but the US has now extended this deadline to the other smaller airlines, like SAS and Alitalia.

"If we don’t follow the US request, we can’t fly ...