Originally Posted by
GUWonder
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.
I lean towards agreeing that the airlines/airports enabled and helped TSA in causing the cuurent problems travelers face but feel it's real sad that the public are the ones paying for these acts. The airlines should suffer a severe penalty that the public could extract by not flying.