I just had an idea. If one airline would insist on special gates and publicly stand that they will be using the El Al style behavior profiling only, and eschewing this useless invasive searching and scanning (they can scan the luggage), that airline would get EVERYONE’S business. (And then all airlines will want to do it.)
Are the airlines still “free” enough to do such a thing? I am thinking of airlines that have a more individual bent like Jet Blue. Does Obama have too strong a hold over their right to conduct business? Can they get around the airport security somehow??
They can't institute individual rules like that, as airport security isn't for the passengers of the plane as much as those on the ground. United Airlines Flight 93 would have been shot down to save D.C.