What the whole Slate article misses of course is the fact that frequent flyers are inconvenienced much more often by airport security than infrequent flyers. In the name of Equality elimination of "special" lines for Frequent Flyers results in an UNEQUAL sacrifice of time out of the Frequent Flyer's life compared to the infrequent flyer. The only thing I have a problem with is that at each airport ONE airline can decide to give "special line" perks for its OWN Frequent Flyers but NOT for those of OTHER airlines that happen to share the same security entrance. When the individual airline was directly paying for the security expenses that I not seem as onerous as it does now when the OTHER airline's customers are paying equitably into a Federalized security system without getting equal benefits.