[justme]

There are two simple facts here: One, TSA are the people that open your bag and ruffle thru your stuff. And two, airline employees don't have time to leisurely rifle thru bags and pick out stuff they want. Once the airplane gets parked in the gate, on a full flight, you have well over 500 bags to unload, sort, and transfer, sort, load and stack along with potentially thousands of pounds of mail, or cargo to load and unload all in a matter of less than an hour. Not to mention all the other things that must also be done in that time. Hook up the power and air so you don't complain about it being to hot on the plane, do walk arounds to make sure the airplane is in good enuf condition to fly, do the weight and balance calculations to make sure the airplane will safely take off and land, the list goes on. I will not say that airline employees never are the ones guilty of the theft, but I would be willing to stake large amounts of money that the vast majority of the time it is not. Airlines do not have any say about who the TSA employs or how they inspect your bags, so the next time your stuff has been searched and destroyed, look to the TSA first and don't automatically blame the airline.