Reply #76: "We both resent how passengers have been forced to give up their dignity" [View All]

[Occam Bandage]

I hardly think that handing a pair of singles to the flight attendant in exchange for your must-have can of Diet Dr. Pepper is debasing. If you're talking about TSA screening, I agree, but the airlines don't like that any more than you do; it raises the financial bar for potential customers without any benefit to the airline (since the 9/11 security fee increases their ticket price without adding revenue), and it increases customer dissatisfaction and reluctance to fly.