Some airports have special priority lines for the business and first-class passengers. There are no security wait times if you have the money to skip the lines.

Eg, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08... and http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11wwln-lede-t.htm... .

And Concorde passengers had the money.