More fun at the airport

Get ready to cough up more information to the feds when you reserve your airline tickets.

The Transportation Security Administration wants to start collecting your full name, birth date, and gender when you reserve an airline flight. The TSA says it will mean fewer travelers are mistaken for terrorists. Right now travelers only have to provide a last name and a first initial.

United Airlines calls the new info sought by the TSA "useless data" and says it will "create a new level of complication for completing air reservations." Oh goody, just what we need -- more complications between purchasing tickets and boarding a (late) flight.

Left unaddressed by the TSA is whether the new information will ease the plight of people unjustly added to the no-fly list and subjected to lengthy and demeaning extra scrutiny -- or just create new grounds for confusion.