Get rid of the muppets who want to blow us all up then the queues will be shorter
The "muppets" have tried and succeeded in blowing up both planes and trains.
Mercifully, for train travel, a sense of perspective has remained in how to cope with that fact. For air travel, rampant paranoia prevails. State led rather than operator led I grant. But completely (forgive the pun) off the rails.
If fuel prices stay high and the air travellers continue to be treated like prisoners returning from a day in the community then short and medium haul operators can watch their custom take the land route. Except in the UK of course where rail travel is an ongoing farce that seems perversly determined to be slower and more expensive than a Cessna 152 with engine trouble.