http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLNE6AO03H20101125
Airline security is starting to get ridiculous, there seems to a constant stream of potential ways to cause havoc on an airplane flowing into the offices of the TSA, airport security agency in the US, making them place new restrictions on carry-on items and new additions to the airport security screening regiment. Now they starting to place more and more full-body scanners in airports causing outrage in the public, but the alternative is a pat down from a lovely TSA agent. Luckily CATSA, the Canadian version of the TSA, isn’t jumping onboard with the TSA’s quite intense pat downs, though full-body scanners are still used in Canadian airports. These intense security measures can be bad for the airlines because of all the travelers there are 2 groups that will be most affected by this, and it could be trouble for airlines. The first group, are those who infer that because of these security measures the terrorists are everywhere and will avoid travel out of fear. The other group, are those who will avoid travel in order to protest this invasion of their privacy. The ‘Don’t Touch my Junk’ crusade against the TSA could end up costing the airlines.