Yep. It hurts the airlines, who then go screaming to big government, who may finally start listening. This has been going on for years, and people have just gotten fed up with the whole mess. Government wouldn't listen to single complaints, but they will listen when an entire industry screams. If the airlines start going down, TSA will follow.
Unless destroying the economy IS the goal. The gov’t bails out an airline, and then we have no choice on who to fly. Areoflot all over again.
Maybe the airlines themselves should form a union and go on strike. Shut down the bulk of the commercial airline industry for a week or two and see what happens. They should be as ticked off at this policy as anybody, given that it has a profoundly negative effect on their business.
I know that I won’t fly under these rules.