It has been my observation (what is yours?) that the FAM program has finally decided to change their mission and actually be "undercover."

As I have posted here previously (somewhat extensively), that was *not* the original mission. The idea was that a careful observer could easily identify the FAMs on a flight. But, in my flights over the last six months (?) I have not observed an obvious FAM. And, I just realized, I don't think I have seen a post here about FAMs taking seats for quite some time.

P.S. - It is my belief that we are actually seeing two different changes. One is an intent to be undercover. The other is a significant decrease in the number of FAM operations.