Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170918133425/@comment-14909251-20171011065019

73.Anon.52 wrote: They already did... right before the seadragon attacked there was a conversation about escalation of grimm affecting travel.... frankly the thing that surprises me is there is no precedent for a "hired huntsman" either on these transports or just passing along the route and passing the travelers on a permanent basis... it would be nice to see a huntsman below qrow/teacher level but above RWBY's current level for once...

I looked and there really isn't anything like that at all. Maybe it was somewhere else in the series, but nothing has been said to suggest there has been an unusual escalation in the threat to travel. The comments have been more general about the increasing threat of the Grimm as a whole. Of course, it doesn't change the fact that having such attacks still raises the question of how travel is even happening. Presumably, not all airships traveling between Atlas and Mistral have a huntress or huntsman secretly hitching a ride based off how the pilot spoke about it. Were this a general trend, you would think there would be more of that taking place.