There has often been criticism of FR's booking system and rightly so - for example, there should be an option to bypass all the other optional extras once a flight has been selected and go directly to the payments page. Frequent travellers would greatly appreciate this as we never have any interest in any of them.
However, my query relates to online check-in where so much other information has to be entered (in addition to having to refuse all the other extras again). It must be a nightmare for families or groups.
The info requested is:
DOB
Nationality
Passport No.
Passport Country of issue
Passport Expiry Date
Can anyone explain the reason why all this info is required. No other airline I fly with asks for this info. Is there some legal requirement involved? Despite the warning that all the info you have input will be checked as you board it is perfectly obvious that this never happens.
I'm not interested in any sarcastic responses from the usual suspects - just plain info.