"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Not at all. The carriers make sure the skids are greased for their
flight
plans to seamlessly and automatically transfer from their host to the
FAA
host. Unless someone wants to manually change a route on an air carrier
domestic flight plan, no human is even involved. It all is computed and
sent to the appropriate station and the FAA in a timely manner.


Flight data processing is done exactly the same for the carriers as any
other operator.

That's not what he said...he was referring to the TRANSFER of the plan from
one system to another (i.e., the carrier to the FAA).