An Open Letter to Airport Administrators

Dear Airport Administrator:

If you operate an airport that competes with a “nearby” airport, then I have some advice regarding how you may double or triple your revenue in a very short period of time.  This should be of special interest to the administrator of say, the Birmingham, Alabama airport, which is an alternative that I have sometimes used in traveling to Auburn, Alabama ,as opposed to flying to Atlanta.

Here’s my tip:  Now that it appears that 1) It is possible for Airports to fire the TSA, and 2) At least 90% of the public thinks the TSA is an outrage that should be abolished, kick the TSA goons out of your airport immediately and hire a private security firm.  Let the airlines take care of their own security.  No one has a greater incentive to excell at that endeavor.  As F.A. Hayek said, private-sector competition is a “dynamic discovery process.”  The airlines and private security firms will compete to discover better and better ways to make air travel secure without turning all their employees into porn addicts and sexual assailants.  If the TSA has proved anything, it has proven once again that the process of government, in contrast to private-sector competition, is a dynamic stultefication process.

If you take my advice you will be so flooded with additional business that your main concern will be how to expand most expeditiously.  I for one would never again fly to Atlanta on my way to Auburn if the Birmingham airport administrator took my advice (or vice versa).

Of course, this advice will become moot if the U.S. government gives up on its crusade to invade and occupy the entire Middle East (and much of the rest of the planet), the effects of which have been to create endless enemies — and endless profits for the military/industrial/congressional complex.

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2:59 pm on November 19, 2010