OTOH The whole point is to create terror, which they did to a whole plane load of passengers.
The rest of us are even more reluctant to fly, as we have seen just how ineffective our TSA is yet again.
Airlines lose even more business.
The 'musicians' ran essentially no risk, they weren't even deported when the FBI found that their visas had expired.
Yet they gave the airlines another small cut that is still bleeding today...
Not true. The point of terrorism is to cause resentment in a population. This is done by causing the government to crack down on the population. This leads to a change in the system as the people themselves create the mechanism for giving the terrorists what they want which is a change in the government. The idea of terror just for the sake of terror serves no purpose.