I am sure the extra legroom in economy is as much to prevent deep vein thrombosis as anything else. I can see the lawsuits now if someone on an 18 hour flight died from it. Mark Quoting Russell Ng <russng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Dennis > > At the SIA press conference in Singapore today, they made it pretty clear > that there was not going to be a plain vanilla Y class. More space was > being provided due to the length of the trip. I guess this is to prevent > people from going berserk. > > When asked about pricing, SQ admitted that prices would be higher than the > present one stop hop over the Pacific but it would be in the vicinity of > 10% higher. > > Anyone know what the manpower requirements would be for the Airbus A340-500 > for this long haul? > > Russell > SIN > > At 12:28 PM 10/15/03 -0400, you wrote: > >Business-class seats, which can fully recline into beds, will have 64 > >inches of leg room and 10-inch video monitors. "Executive economy" seats > >will have 37 inches of leg room, 9-inch monitors, and will be set up > > > >Are they planning a 3rd class -- just plain Y class? or is Exec y their > >name for Y class? >