Industry Official Issues Warning on ‘Unsafe’ Thanksgiving Flights This Week
Published on November 21, 2023
An air industry official warned that some Thanksgiving flights could be “unsafe” as it is estimated that a record number of Americans will travel during the upcoming holiday season. “We just received an email last week that resources are depleted as far as our flying Air Marshals,” Sonya LaBosco, the head of the Air Marshal National Council, said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. The Air Marshal National Council says it is a lobbying organization that represents Federal Air Marshals. Those marshals are under the supervision of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and are trained to blend into a crowd of plane passengers to try and thwart potential terrorist attacks targeting planes....