Originally Posted by drb671
It happened again today, and this time, I was able to confirm it was a non-active sky marshall. Waiting to board 1499 from BDL - ATL, and watched 2 sky marshalls waiting in the gate area to return to ATL approach the gate agent. I was standing just out from the desk and watched him show the "sky marshall" badge. The agent (Joe Aiello) smiled and made small talk. Agent left the gate area, walked over to a gate that was not being occupied and logged into the computer. He promptly ticketed both marshalls with F class tickets and I watched 2 names remove from the Standby list. I figured they are catching on that people are watching the monitors and monitoring actions like this.
I can tell you that if two air marshals checked into your flight they were on duty. While flying off-duty the airlines are quite aware of DHS policy that they do not have to provide us any special priviledges, and let me tell you they enforce that to the fullest. I've gone on vacation before, but I've never invited my partner along, so I'm pretty sure those guys were scheduled for that flight.