TSA's Secure Flight brings changes to non-rev listings

Since Dec. 1, the Transportation Security Agency in its Secure Flight program has required non-revenue travelers to provide the following additional personal information when they list for travel:

• Full name (as it appears on the government-issued photo ID you travel with);
• Date of birth;
• Sex;
• TSA-issued redress number (if applicable). Details below.

Secure Flight is a TSA program  to better decrease misidentification of air travelers against watch lists. TSA has asked the airlines to collect passengers' personal information about passengers on its behalf:

Most non-rev travelers will not have a redress number and won’t need to supply it. For employees with eligible travelers under 18 with no government ID, it’s recommended you enter their full names as they appear on their birth certificates or school ID.

Read more on the Secure Flight page

The US Airways employee travel office adds:

We’ve heard that many retirees are having problems using the automated phone system.

As part of this new procedure, it is imperative that employees and retirees who use the system to list on flights set up their Secure Flight profile before attempting to list.  Because the the automated portion of our pass phone line (800-325-9999) has no way to collect these details, all employees and retirees must fill out their Secure Flight profile on Wings in order to complete a listing.

The phone line does still allow a user to check schedules, availability, and boarding totals. But it does not tell users that they do not have travel privileges, nor that their travel privileges are suspended.

If users do not have Secure Flight profiles saved on Wings, the system advises them to log into Wings to complete their details before they can use  the automated line listing services.

Six-digit employee numbers are required to lot into Wings. But a number of pre-merger US Airways retirees do not have them.

Retirees without six-digit numbers may call employee travel at 480-693-8717 (11 a.m.-7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday). We’ll look up their information in Oracle and help them with logging into Wings if they have never used it.