There should be a massive boycott of every airline during this holiday season. They have no business allowing the molestation of their customers, and since they haven’t raised a peep of protest, they must not care about their customers.
They deserve to go broke if they sit and suck their thumbs and expect people to put up with this outrage to fly their airlines.
The government actually would like this to happen, it is one of the secondary goals of the enhanced screenings. The current regime looks for any chance to damage the economy it possibly can, and the desired effect is to damage the airlines. If they are really successful the airlines will be so damaged the only way they survive is if the government steps in and nationalizes them in order to keep air travel in America. This brings them to their other goal - controlling travel and thus, restricting travel. They don’t like the freedom air travel provides people across the country so quickly and relatively easily.
They are working to change that.