Okay, I think I’ve ranted enough about my recent Royal Jordanian experience, between the bad soft product on the Boeing 787-8 , and the awful hard product on the Embraer E190-E2 . In this post I’d like to discuss a topic more broadly, which I can’t really make sense of. Royal Jordanian has air marshals on all flights (I believe) The surprising behavior of Royal Jordanian air marshals Bottom line Royal Jordanian has air marshals on all flights (I believe) In the United States we have the federal air marshal program , whereby a very small number of flights have air marshals onboard. They’re undercover, and they sit in different parts of the aircraft, so the intent is that passengers don’t know who they are. At this point it’s exceedingly rare to have them, but the program does exist. Some other countries take a much more extreme approach with this concept, and have them on virtually all flights. For example, EgyptAir has security officers onboard flights , who act as air marshals.…