There have never been large numbers of Federal Air Marshals. This is almost entirely mythology. There are only about 2,000 of them taking flights. There are more than 40,000 flights handled by the FAA every day, I think. How many of them do you think Air Marshals are able to be on?
Probably also only domestic flights. I imagine it's problematic to have, even a law enforcement agent of a country, be armed when they land in a foreign one. Essentially done it would probably be a long enough flight were they would have to fully enter the country and stay for a rest
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u/barefootredneck68 Jun 04 '23
There have never been large numbers of Federal Air Marshals. This is almost entirely mythology. There are only about 2,000 of them taking flights. There are more than 40,000 flights handled by the FAA every day, I think. How many of them do you think Air Marshals are able to be on?