My concern is how are these skymarshalls going to be selected/trained? Hopefully not a farce like PanAm where dogs were taken out of kennels for abandonned canines and placed at the feet of quickly seconded security men just to please the media post-Lockerbie. Although i am not in that particular line of work, i stick with the British crews. Security on the ground is the answer. If the flight is threatened or implicated with a security issue...DONT OPERATE IT!
Putting a loaded gun on an aircraft is absolute madness, and to be dictated to by the US Government that we must is ridiculous. Still, i work for a Company that puts bullet proof doors on there fleet just in case an express package decides to have a go............and still doesnt allow business jumpseaters on the airplane, outside of the cockpit. Say no more...............