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Are you unable to consider for a moment that by and large these searches are NOT consensual?

Sure they are. You don't have a constitutional right to fly on an airplane that doesn't belong to you, so you are subject to some terms and conditions in order to book a flight. One of those terms is that you consent to a search. If you don't consent to a search by not booking a flight, no airport screener will come to your house and forcibly search you. Really. I promise.

Random searches by the government without profiling (probably cause!) are illegal. Absolutely, totally illegal. The government is interfering between customers and airlines. The airlines are going out of business because they are unable to respond intelligently to the threat posed by terrorism; instead, they're having to be party to strip-searching Grandma. So you see, what you advocate doesn't work, is throwing the baby out with the bath water, and is illegal. And the most objectionable thing about it is that we--customers and citizens--have no way to petition our government for redress of these grievances.

The terrorists can get right through these searches, and will, whenever they decide the time is right.