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What happened to air marshals being on flights?
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:43 am
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:43 am
For the past couple of years, seems every news story I read around a disruptive passenger on flight talks about how passengers and flight crew had to restrain the person with duct tape, etc.
Do we not have air marshals on flights anymore?
Do we not have air marshals on flights anymore?
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:45 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Air marshals aren't giving away their identity for anything other than an actual security threat. 99% of unruly passengers are not actual security threats.
This post was edited on 10/27/26 at 8:46 am
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:48 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Do we not have air marshals on flights anymore?
They're probably still on there but don't advertise they are marshals. They dress and act like regular baws so you'd probably never know......until you do.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:49 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
It’s against the Geneva Conventions.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:50 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
They are the ones getting duct taped. Thanks to Brandon’s DEI hiring
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:50 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
I imagine air marshals are actually on a small percentage of flights. There's an absurd amount of commercial air traffic in the US every single days. Counting guys taking vacation, sleeping, etc that would take a whole lot of guys.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:51 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
They're still on flights, but they don't announce their presence, until they have to.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:53 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Less than 1% of domestic flights have air marshals on board.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 8:58 am to Tigertittie
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They're still on flights, but they don't announce their presence, until they have to.
Yea, but some of them don’t do a very good job of hiding their weapon.
I had two board my plane once. They walked off of one plane and onto the one we were about to board, and the desk agent didn’t even look up as they walked past her and got on the plane. It wasn’t very subtle.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:08 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Even right after 9/11, it was mostly an illusion. The number of them around increased but they were never on a substantial percentage of domestic flights.
This post was edited on 10/27/26 at 9:09 am
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:09 am to MFn GIMP
quote:I know 2 and this is there SOP, the exception is when ANY of the flight crew(including attendants) are threatened or prevented from mission critical tasks. I know a guy from NOLA that got a year of fed jail time for grabbing a flight attendant.
Air marshals aren't giving away their identity for anything other than an actual security threat. 99% of unruly passengers are not actual security threats.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:12 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
They are probably put on flights that have passengers with a last name of Muhammad etc
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:15 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Spirit going under is the answer
We used to be able to travel w/o the usuals ruining it, spirit was our buffer, now we fricked
We used to be able to travel w/o the usuals ruining it, spirit was our buffer, now we fricked
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:21 am to CatsGoneWild
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They are probably put on flights that have passengers with a last name of Muhammad etc
That's Racist.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:26 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Was part of the post-911 show.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:31 am to Theduckhunter
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I had two board my plane once. They walked off of one plane and onto the one we were about to board, and the desk agent didn’t even look up as they walked past her and got on the plane. It wasn’t very subtle.
What’s the point of being an air marshal if you can’t peacock around a bit?
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:31 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
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Do we not have air marshals on flights anymore?
More flights than you think actually
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:34 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
They were never on every flight. In fact, I bet they’re less than one in five flights.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:35 am to MFn GIMP
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Air marshals aren't giving away their identity for anything other than an actual security threat. 99% of unruly passengers are not actual security threats.
There was a story about this on the radio a few weeks ago. There are not as many air marshalls as there used to be. They also are not supposed to get involved unless asked by the pilot or the incident hits certain criteria.
Posted on 10/27/26 at 9:39 am to OysterPoBoy
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It’s against the Geneva Conventions.
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