The sorry state of airport security is one of the big reasons that the major's are going to stay in financial trouble. The Government doesn't really get it. Aviation is the life blood of the new global economy and they impose ill thought out ideas to impede its very progress.
Airport security is a joke and the Governments feeble efforts to fix it just magnify their complete misunderstanding of the aviation industry.
On one flight I had to open my flight bag, remove my flashlight and show the batteries to security. It's all about POWER folks and the Government has given these people the power...
People traveling on the short hauls find it not worth the hassle to run the gauntlet of security and then have to pay all the fees. Why bother, take your car....
The Government doesn't get it, the tail of security is wagging the dog. Or perhaps it's a few misguided security chiefs who see spooks at every corner who control the tail that wags the dog.
Who ever said that politicians were smart? Boy did they ever get that wrong...