[geeks] Dos and similar games

Nick B. nick at pelagiris.org
Tue Aug 15 21:25:31 CDT 2006


So let qualified CCW holders carry on flights.
	Nick
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:46:36PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> There are THOUSANDS of flights, if you required a Sky Marshal on each flight, it would amount to a .5% tax on the airline's revenues, if you assume the average plane holds 200 passengers (a number I made up becuase the math was easy). To take .5% "off the top" would be a serious blow to the airline industry.
> If you decided to manage which flights got Sky Marshals (say, only flights where the plane is of a certain size, trip of a certain duration, or the amount of fuel carried on the flight), then you would simply be telling the "bad guys" which flight to go after - the ones on the certain planes, the ones that are under some certain time limint, or that carry less than a certain amount of fuel...
> Lionel



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