<story><title>Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/air-marshals-will-refuse-orders-to-go-to-the-border-prefer-protecting-first-class-cabins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlukecarlson</author><text>Seems like a completely failed program to me. Any organization should be able to quantitatively prove their value on some level. As the article points out, for the DHS to say they do “not have information on [the air marshal program’s] effectiveness” while also averaging a cost of $200 million per arrest is an insane statistic that should immediately require changes in the program.</text></comment>
<story><title>Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins</title><url>https://viewfromthewing.com/air-marshals-will-refuse-orders-to-go-to-the-border-prefer-protecting-first-class-cabins/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>&amp;gt; “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of.”&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not really &amp;quot;unheard of&amp;quot;. Air traffic controllers, employed by the FAA, famously went on strike in the early 80s and were subsequently all fired by the Reagan administration.&lt;p&gt;In this case, honestly I&amp;#x27;d be like &amp;quot;fine, go ahead and try insubordination, and then get fired.&amp;quot; As this article makes exceedingly clear, it will be &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; easier to continue air travel without air marshals than without air traffic controllers, and the US govt still managed that situation pretty decently.</text></comment>