Transport committee  Let me quickly answer that. It's all publicly available on the Plattsburgh website. They are a debt-free airport. There was $100 million spent to change it from a military base to a commercial airport. The runway is about 13,500 feet, made of concrete; it's about 200 feet less th

Transport committee  We've only been in existence for 14.

Transport committee  And that their situation has been corrected.

Transport committee  Again, keep in mind that we have no access to, nor do we want any access to, any of the decision-making or information that goes on among security authorities when they make those decisions.

Transport committee  Nothing comes readily to mind--

Transport committee  There's a variety of items. There's nothing that comes to mind. It's fairly straightforward data.

Transport committee  It includes name, date of birth, gender. If they've had issues with whatever jurisdiction's no-fly list, or whatever we want to generically call it, and they've remediated that issue, they will be given a number to provide to us so they don't get caught in the system afterwards.

Transport committee  Well, the irony would be that we would be cutting back all the service. They would be increasing their service, and yes, Canadians would be voluntarily going to those places.

Transport committee  Well, what you would see, from an operating perspective and a financial perspective, is that it just would not make sense to fly to the vast majority of those destinations below the U.S. border. For a variety of reasons, carriers would have to look at rescheduling and what they a

Transport committee  As I said in my opening comments, we recognize that there are other issues on this beyond economics. Our purpose in coming here today was that we had heard comments in the House and whatnot that the inconvenience to the industry would be another 60 minutes or 30 minutes flight ti

Transport committee  Just to be clear, too, under the Secure Flight regulations, you will transmit that data 72 hours prior to, if you have the data. You know people purchase tickets within that 72-hour window. Just to be clear in terms of the information the air carrier receives, we do not receive

Transport committee  For a transborder flight, it shows up on your ticket as well as on the website. We have a general notion on the website that when you're flying to foreign countries, we'll be transmitting this data to the requisite aeronautical authorities to be used for security purposes by that

Transport committee  Certainly.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, for the opportunity to appear this morning to outline for you why the National Airlines Council of Canada does support wholeheartedly the passage of Bill C-42. We are here on behalf of WestJet, Air Canada, Air Transat, and