There's also air freight which is a big moneymaker for airlines. Is this going to be x-rayed and scanned for explosives also?

I am not surprised about the Mineta comments. As I've said plainly on other threads, the government's involvement in security is very bad. They react knee jerk, have no customers to account to, no costs to control, no quality control, they're going to be a new unionized pro-government expansion workforce etc. etc. etc.