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I have seen one or two ads by Amtrak promoting train travel as a way to avoid the airpoort hassles associated with flying.  I cannot remember whether they mentioned screening, but the implication is clear. Now that I am retired, I drive or take the train whenever I can.  I don't fly unless the alternatives are not a good bet.  But when I go to Australia, where I lived for more than five years, to visit my friends, I sure don't take the train to the west coast and a ship to Australia.  As a retired person I have lots of time on my hands, but not enough to endure a ship ride to Australia, assuming that I could even get one that goes there. This year more than 725 million passengers are expected to pass through airport security in the U.S.  A few of these folks will have unpleasant experiences with the TSA.  But I have had no bad experiences with the TSA during the five years that I have been retired.  In fact, overall, they have done a good job.  They move people through the Austin airport with little fuss.  So one should be careful not to generalize to the whole population a few bad experiences.  When traveling long distances or time is short, flying is the best way to go.  Today it costs about half of what it did in 1978, the year before the airlines were deregulated, when adjusted for inflation.  It is not as comfortable as a bedroom in a Superliner car, but it is a lot cheaper and much quicker.
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