Looking at it with a wider lens... First, the feds break the Constitution to take over the control of the air routes, beginning in the 1920's-1930's. FDR sends out millions of Dollars to local politicians to build new airports where the market would not have placed them. Then the Feds impose insane, anti-constitutional, pro-union rules on the airlines, THEN, the feds take over the security at the airports. Each one of these causes delays, inefficiencies, and dictates that have no connection to the desires of consumers. So, you have airlines being delayed by security, you have air routes that get clogged due to government control of them, and you have excessive costs due to union involvement. Now, the government nlames the airlines once more, even while the airliners are trying to operate within a world of regulations and impositions that hurt their bottom lines and cause delays!

Insane.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/21/national/w07...