PLainclothes.

They have finally stopped making them fly in business attire, that was a huge help. Now on my first flight yesterday, I was the FIRST GUY ON THE AIRPLANE and there was a guy in 2-Echo seated when I walked on. Little wonder who that might have been! I can tell you I would not have wanted to get into a fistfight with that dude. He looked like he could bend a wing with his bare hands.

They need to keep them in whatever clothing they feel is appropriate, let them board with EVERYONE ELSE, and park some in the coach cabin as well.

Right now if I wanted to mess with a plane I would simply make sure I was first in line and whoever was seated there when I got on the plane is the guy I take out when I make my move. If I wasn't first on board I could take out every guy in first class and know I was pretty safe. WHy ar they always in forst? How about the first two rows of Y?

Protecting the anomymity of the FAM is so critical that if something looked like it were really escalating on board an airplane I would go throw myself into the mix to try and keep the FAM from having to break cover. Then again I made a decision in September of 2001 that if I ever saw something like that go down on an airplane I was on that they would damn sure have to kill me first to get it done. I won't go out with a whimper. And given the number of big guys who have recently jumped up and beat the daylights out of people who are presenting a danger on an airplane, the bad guys are going to run out of ammunition before they kill all of us.

--PP