> Consider the numbers. Hundreds of major airports with hundreds of flights a
> day, so we're talking on the order of 10,000 flights a day perhaps. If you
> want to have at least one marshal on each flight, with extras for folks who
> are on vacation or off sick, or just to work in shifts (since air travel
> runs almost 24/7), you're looking at maybe 25,000 marshals. They don't
> exist in a vacuum, they have a support organization, so maybe, if they're
> really efficient (but, then, this will be a government agency), you're up to
> 75,000 people. Suppose the entire payroll averages $50,000 per person. You
> have to roughly double that for benefits and overhead costs (training
> facilities, offices, etc.) so that's a cost of $100,000 per person. Times
> 75,000 people is $75,000,000,000. A YEAR!
>
> Now, admittedly, you probably won't see marshals too often on short-hop
> commuter flights, but this should set the scale for you.
>
> - Eric.
>
> ------------------------------
>
I don't want to argue for or against Sky Marshalls, or any other means
of security without careful study and consideration, BUT I do want to
point out something that I think gets lost when comments are made about
"numbers". Your figure above of 75 billion sounds like an enormous
figure so therefor undoable. But to keep it in proper perspective you
must calculate how much additional airfare will that cost each
passenger. That is where the money would come from. In other words, if
you are contemplating changing the cost of anything you must look at the
"per unit cost", not just the total cost without regard to anything else.
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