Just to clarify, I think it is "APSA" Airline Pilots Security Alliance that was pushing for that authority. I hadn't seen where ALPA had jumped on that bandwagon?

I don't have a problem with the FFDO program. Some think FAM's may feel threatened by it. Maybe some are, but I think most either support or don't care one way or the other.

Debates about chances of occurrence aside, if a traditional deadly force incident would once again take place on an airliner, no one in their right mind would want that to take place on a flight deck, other than as a last measure. The programs complement each other in my mind.