Originally Posted by
LondonElite
I wonder how you go about identifying them. My guess (and it is only that) is that air marshals are on board a statistically insignificant number of flights worldwide. I'm not sure if you are privileged with insider information (i.e. you or someone close to you is in the business) but, given that most countries don't use them or acknowledge their - or their program's - existence in any way, using the word 'plenty' seems, prima facie, a bit casual.
I fly on certain routes that have a higher -- much higher -- proportion of armed personnel on board than most other flights. My flight patterns are not a mirror image of all "flights worldwide", but it's been "plenty" on some non-US carriers routes of which I have made good use.
You can keep wondering about how I know which of my flights have plain clothes armed personnel on board, but it's not all that difficult to figure out how I have known.
Of the countries where there is a FAM style program, public acknowledgement of the use of such personnel as a security measure has taken place in a variety of them.
Remember David Blunkett?
