Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
I wonder how much airport authorities paid to modify their terminals to install all the Extortion-Check areas in the first place? How much more are we paying them in increased parking fees and retail prices to pay for all of it? I guess money was no object in the effort to silence the TSA's most vocal critics.
Not much if at all. The equipment was usually already there in the first place, it just took modifying some settings on said equipment.
There's been parking rate increases at BOS, but I know the obvious cause of that, so Massport can pay for the terminal extensions to fit the ever increasing international presence and post-security connectors that have been built or are being built.
Yes, a checkpoint or two has been built or expanded in that time, but that's pretty much it.