[Cronos]

So that's why it'd be better to have Marshalls instead of just farming out guns to pilots.

[Travis McGee]

Over 80% of pilots are ex-military, and are already experienced with pistols. And guess what? At least two of these pilots are on every flight.

Air marshals are on less than 5% of domestic flights. The next Atta has a better than 95% chance of boarding a domestic American plane with no air marshal, if he avoids flights into and out of NYC and DC.

(Most of the marshals are on the DC flights, essentially guarding our ultra-esteemed and extremely important politicians. We commoners can do without.)