Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
And yet DL is spending millions of dollars this summer to hire its own employees to help with directing people to lines, returning bins, etc. to "help" TSA because of the long lines. If the thousands of TSA employees standing around would do something useful, airports wouldn't be in sure a mess.
Given DL management's prior DHS-cheerleading ways, the airline's paying up to four million dollars this summer for the TSA mess is a drop in the bucket and too little too late.
The airlines could have lobbied big time against the TSA's strip search machines, the boarding pass/ID checks, the PreCheck nonsense of all free animals are equal but some free animals are more equal than other free animals, and so on. But did they? Not so much, and certainly not enough.
The airlines have gotten the TSA meltdown which the airlines deserved.