The same article later states > "We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're ident

The same article later states > "We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They're identifying the traveler," Farrell said. "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data." So I'd say it's more likely that it is CBP who has the database (and not JetBlue).