Originally Posted by
lmirante
My point is that the airlines only care about numbers 1 and 2. The TSA doesn't care about any of the numbers no matter how non-trivial. To get the attention of the airlines, we need to affect their bottom line.
I'm not in any way saying don't the other items. I'm not criticizing anyone who's using any of the opt-out options. I'm just wondering what other people might think about the 'harder to fight the AITs as they become more entrenched' idea. I.e., is time of the essence?
I agree. My point is that the TSA sees a relatively small percentage of people who have opted out, because many of the people who opt out never go near an airport these days.
The issue, as I think you're getting to, is that the TSA, as a government agency, is not a stakeholder in the viability of the airline industry. They have nothing to lose if the airline industry went belly-up. If there were no commercial flights, they would still be out -- all 50,000 of them -- standing around in empty airports.