When Duh Mare made the deal to keep Meigs open for 5 years (we know how that worked out) he insisted the state provide security...so the guy would actually check your plane and bags to make sure you didn't have any weapons allowing you to take control by force of the plane you were controlling.
Look back on the early days of the airline industry. They and the rail industry duked it out not in the market but in the halls of Congress as to who got the best deals. Given the way the airline industry has performed it would be best to allow as much competition in travel as possible. Betting on the airlines is a sure delayed flight to disaster.
I landed at Meigs once. I did not have my plane searched but your were prohibited from walking out to your plane without a Meigs security employee with you.
When Duh Mare made the deal to keep Meigs open for 5 years (we know how that worked out) he insisted the state provide security...so the guy would actually check your plane and bags to make sure you didn't have any weapons allowing you to take control by force of the plane you were controlling.
When I walk into the Signature facility at O'Hare I have to put my briefcase through the X-ray and walk through the metal detector. I mostly jsut get waived thorugh the detector when I show my ID card.
There is no screening of that type at Midway that I have seen. Signature O'Hare has a metal detector and x-ray. So does Signature at Boston Logan.
(Signature is charging $7.48! 
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