Originally Posted by michaelchertoff
And he has no economic skin the game, right? So we should just accept his opinion and enact it. This notion that hardened cockpit doors have rendered airliners safe from takeover is absolutely false.
Everyone that flies has economic skin in this game. He also has a bigger risk. If there was a reasonable scenario in which the FAM's were indispensable and CO didn't have them, the additional liability would be staggering.
CO has about 42,000 employees. I think that it may have some good info and analysis to support his position. In my opinion, it takes a lot of courage for a major airline president to stand up and say that we don't need FAM's. I applaud that.