Perhaps, Mr. Chairman, I can offer two comments. The first is that it would be fully the government's intention to prescribe by regulation exactly the type of information that would be permissible for air carriers to share with the U.S. government. It would be fully our intention to state exactly what type of information that would be, and it would be identical to what is being requested pursuant to the U.S. secure flight program--no more, no less.
I think the other point I might offer, Mr. Chairman, is that in our discussions with the U.S. government leading up to their finalization of the U.S. secure flight final rule, they have been quite clear with us that the purpose of this program is for aviation and national security and that the information they collect is for that purpose. They run it against their no-fly list, and where there is no match against their no-fly list, that information is not retained after seven days. They don't keep it. They dispose of it.
I recognize that there are potentially concerns about the length of retention periods, but I think it's up to them to defend their retention periods and the reasons that they feel they need to have a certain length of time. What they've indicated to us is that they feel that it gives them sufficient time to do what they need to do from the perspective of aviation and national security.