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El Al are trying it. They have a few coach type called "economy plus". What the link doesn't say is that you can buy the regular seat, and then participate in an auction to upgrade that might prove cheaper than buying it straight out.

I took a flight to France a month ago. Flight there was almost completely empty, and they let us move there at no cost. I can't say for sure whether there is more leg room, but it is the exact experiment you were talking about either way.

Then again, I'm fairly heavy set, and the flight back (regular coach) went fine without this upgrade. Maybe they just haven't completely jumped on to the "no leg room" band wagon yet.

Shachar

Security was being run by an airline? Really?

YA RLY. El Al is fanatical about security, for fairly obvious reasons. They make the posers at TSA look like posers.

Even in Canada. Oh, sure, you have your own "independent" security. But El Al security is running the show inside their gate areas and on their planes, no fear.

Experience keeps a costly school, but Israel's national airline has definitely learned the lessons there.

Just like El-Al Airlines? I've never flown them, but I hear they have heavily armed guards on each flight.

And yes, it appears that Slashdot changed the "Poste Comment" page.

Why not make the door for the airplane pilot bullet proof and locked from the inside. That alone would have stopped 9-11

You don't really think that do you? Seriously, there's traffic between the cockpit and the cabin all the time - so there has to be a communications link

Call the El Al, Israel's national airline and ask them how it's been working out. All their planes have locked and bulletproof doors to the cockpit and plain clothes law enforcement on each flight. There have been many hijacking attempts, none have been successful. No "little girl with a razor blade to her throat standing in a pool of her fathers blood."

When booking my flight, I did manage to get as far as the booking process, but the site is so badly formatted in Firefox it's tedious in the extreme, with random screw-ups here and there.

In the end I just booked with a third party company (Lastminute.com, as it happens).

I also had a moan here: http://www.elal.co.il/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1578&V_ LANG_ID=0. If enough people complain, something might happen! :-)

This also explain why so many characters have two L's in their names.

Obviously the seats are too small and close together; this expensive waste of technology is not actually designed to prevent hijacking. If they really cared to prevent hijackers, they'd have bullet-proof lockable doors between pilot and passengers, and armed undercover guards onboard every flight. In other words, they'd do exactly what El-Al does. Notice that no El-Al planes have been hijacked since 1968.