[alecbz]

It's not that they'd pay individual employees more, it's that they'd hire more workers to account for the fact that their existing workers are tied up doing extra verification.

Though they might not do that either.

[ibejoeb]

Even that fails a sanity test. They're not doing anything more than they would have done 25 years ago when the whole damn thing started.

[alecbz]

I wasn't flying 25 years ago but I'm not sure what you mean, or how that's relevant actually. The point is just that it takes them more time to do the "extra screening" if you don't have your ID than the standard screening if you did have your ID.