Sorry, but you are incorrect, travel is not a right. Rights are those actions that you can conduct on your on without dependance on others. For example, you have the right to speak your mind. You do not have the right to have your opinion published in your local news paper because that is owned by someone else.
While you do have the right to move about this country, you do NOT have the right to demand that your neighbor, a local taxi or some other commercial enterprise transport you.
Freedom of Association includes the freedom FROM association, and should a commercial enterprise decide NOT to carry you, on their private property, then they have the right to refuse you service.
Not if you're a minority, a woman, a homosexual, or a muslim. That part of the Constitution applies only to white males. /s
This whole issue has nothing to do with whether or not you have the right to demand that a common carrier transport you or not (although, contrary to what you wrote, you generally have that right as well). This has to do with whether or not the federal government has the power to restrict you from getting the service that you and the common carrier agreed to. That power is nowhere in the constitution.
By the way, the fact that the common carrier has already accepted payment for the service, and that the traveler, in his or her capacity as a taxpayer, has already paid for whatever part of the air travel system is funded by government, are just gravy, and serve to point out that the government is not only restricting you from making a deal, but they are preventing unsuitably obsequious persons from getting the benefit of whatever deal the traveler already paid for.
Oh, as in “No Colored People Served”?
To quote one US public law: “A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace.”
See 49 U.S.C. § 40103 : US Code - Section 40103: Sovereignty and use of airspace.
The Right of Travel is a long established common law right, one of the fundamental Natural Rights of Man.
Despite what any confused or uninformed media personality or blogger may say, your freedom to travel as an American citizen is a right, and in our time a right we must all re-assert boldly.
The TSA isn’t denying Citizens the right to fly, they are denying them the right to travel by prohibiting access to a federally controlled travel venue. No different than the gov’t building a fence along all river and ocean shorelines and telling you you can not use them because you won’t take their abuse to “qualify” to use them.
The TSA isn’t connected to flying in any way, shape, or form. They are more closely related to the toll taker on the expressway you took to get to the airport.
Americans have the Right to travel, and this includes the Right to travel by common carrier.