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90,000 plus Air Marshals would be required in the U.S.A. alone; run that one by the bean counters. I'm not sure if those numbers include every operator that has a big airplanes or not (charter etc.).
I suspect it may be a lot easier to keep an Isreali Marshal interested in his/her job as they are dealing with such small numbers of flights. How long do you suppose you can keep a highly trained Air Marshal fit and interested after a couple of years of torture in the cabin riding around the U.S. skies?
Air Marshal's are random; you guess whether your next flight has one or not. We have to get over this grand idea that one big answer solves one big problem; everyone has a part to play.
Time to include the aircrews in the overall security package (so give back our nail clippers...)
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Last edited by Orca strait; 3rd Jun 2002 at 17:48.