Nope, your "secure airline" flight still only actually screens about three of every ten passengers with the strip-search scanner or the gropathon, but at least YOU feel safer because you know that some of the passengers on your flight don't mind being invasively probed or photographed.
I think they could search everyone. That could be the policy of the Secure Airline. And it would be achievable because the folks who won’t go along with it will be boarding the other airline, so there will be fewer folks to search. Of course, it would cost a bit more, but you get additional security. The only question is whether there would be enough passengers who would pay the additional cost for the additional security, given they would have to submit to the search. The big problem with the current system is that it’s a one size fits all system. Government tells you what level of security there will be, and you’ve got to submit, even if you want more security, or less security. Government has no business doing that, and that is why there is such a fuss about this. Let the marketplace decide. If you buy a seat on the Secure Airline, you’re not in a very good position to complain that you’re being searched. Conversely, if you buy a seat on the other airline, you’re not in a very good position to complain about inadequate security. You get what you pay for.