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No dude, the central question in this thread is “When?”

Realtime, accurate, up-to-the-minute manifest information is sensitive. Manifest information from last week, perhaps less so—especially considering other ways to infer movement of people.

But being able to know, “bdangubic just presented a boarding pass at El-Al Gate 8A in Kiev” or the details of USPS cargo stowed in the downbelow; or “AStonesThrow just 3 seconds ago landed with 74 other souls at KSFO and there are 11 Lyft Drivers nearby” that’s the crux of sensitivity. Like where to aim the MANPADS.

furthermore, passenger manifest data is not one blob of perfectly accurate information, like the digits of pi. it's ever-changing, and so the accuracy matters when considering the value, and the resale value, of such data. and the costs of litigation. imagine that a preliminary manifest is you know two weeks prior to the flights departure. and it gets leaked. it's preliminary, and it indicates who's booked the flight, but you have no idea who's actually going to board the flight or who did if this is looking in retrospective.

or I mean you can conceive of situations where a manifest would change while in flight. for instance somebody checks in and boards the flight, but they get sucked out of a door. or they die on route. and so the body shows up but the passengers soul is no longer present. Conversely, a hypothetical,pregnant mother boards a flight in shanghai, she gives birth to triplets, and these additional “formerly uterine passengers” land in San Francisco. how's that manifest look?

and so that's going to affect the accuracy, and therefore the value, of your manifest when considering sales to third parties, or litigation situations. or you know regilatory Federal Agency fines and stuff court fees.

Private jets and General Aviation have other rules. I don’t know what happens when Dad takes 8 children on a Piper Cub from Podunk Field Runway 18, but perhaps that’s going to be sold 30 days after they land safely?

At that point in time, it hardly matters who reads a list, compared to the realtime shit you assert without citing any reliable sources.




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