Much ado about nothing.

TSA announced a long time ago that it was phasing out the freebie pilot program and that program is now gone. We're now on our third iteration of Managed Inclusion and that isn't even based on FF status.

Thousands of bills are filed every year as knee jerk reactions to some perceived issue. Pre-Check isn't going anywhere, Congress isn't requiring tougher standards and the fee isn't being raised.

The effort out there, quite successful as I hear, is to encourage more major employers to pick up the tab for their employees who travel a good deal. TSA won't meet its goal $85 at a time.