Originally Posted by
Carl Johnson
They can do that all they like, but that has nothing to do with the point you're arguing against. The fact that you generalize your description so that it obscures the point you're really making indicates that you sense the weakness of your argument. The airlines should not be allowed to control access to a federal resource.
They don't allow or deny people access to the federal resource. They get to choose in what order people get to that resource. Everybody gets screened.
Think of it this way. If they wanted to, the airlines could say "status frequent fliers and first class passengers can use their mobile devices or print boarding passes at home. Everyone else needs to get a boarding pass from a kiosk in the airport." If security lines are long, they just stop printing boarding passes until the line has shortened. Has the same effect as having a priority line.