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Yes evacuation on take off and landing is very important.

However the regs don't differentiate about the stage of the flight, even if you were only allowed to use the bed during cruise, at 30,000 over the ocean - the same time applies.

There are a couple of larger models where the crew rest area is in the cargo hold. It's a removable unit the full width of the plane - equal to two of those 5sided luggage pods and is very comfortable.

Airlines looked at using them as sleeping berths for first class passengers but it's difficult to meet the escape time requirements.

Although you chances of exiting the aircraft in 90secs if it crashed in the middle of the Atlantic in the middle of the night are pretty small - the FAA has to pretend it's possible.

In terms of single type, domestic only, cheap tickets and informal staff they do.

They do still do seat numbers unlike SWA/Easyjet - don't understand why. Yes if you are flying long haul with a family you want to sit together, but a typical 1-2hour hop you just waste time getting up and down to let other people past. You still end up changing seats anyway as they shuffle people around to put families together or deal with unsuitable people in exit seats.

My university is banning under 18s after several centuries of admitting brilliant child prodigies. Simply because government rules call for detailed background checks for anyone working with children. We aren't sure if this would only apply to a kid's teachers, all teaching staff, all researchers, all staff or even every other >18year old student they met.

Not joking - there was a case about whether in high school any student who turned 18 in their final year needed a police check if they helped a still 17yro student with their work and so were 'in a teaching position'

But it doesn't give them much negotiating power with Boeing.

That's why Easyjet recently bought a bunch of A320s, you can bet the next round of shopping at Boeing will be a lot more interesting.

The point of the SWA article though, is that airlines don't seem to realise that people carrying masses of carry-on onto the plane slow down the boarding/exiting so much they delay the flight and cost far more money than handling bags would.

Also it isn't the baggage fees with Ryanair so much as the price you pay is completely unrelated to the advertised $1 price for the flight. You can only find all the taxes and fees once you have completed the booking - they have even sued external price compare sites which show you the full price. They are constantly being investigated for this under various Eu consumer laws.

I'm assuming SE are going to have an in-house appliance or virtual machine version for companies.

No company is going to have it's knowledge base on someone else's servers - especially not any industry 'knowledge rich' (urghhh) enough to need an SE site

Simple solution, the penalty for an official classifying something as secret because it was illegal, or they were doing a deal for a supplier or they were covering their butts could be the same as that for revealing a real secret.

Almost, easyjet and then Ryanair copied the single type, low prices and short routes idea of SouthWestern.

What they forgot to copy was the honest price, no fees policy and the extremely helpful and friendly staff of SWA and the Canadian equivalent Westjet.

What Ryan did was take the SWA idea of being profitable and added the fee structure scams of every major airline and the customer management skills of a Soviet era railway.

The airport charges the airlines for handling bags, only a couple of $ but the cash strapped airlines want to get that back from you and by the time they have collected the money and processed the fee it ends up costing them $10-15 so they charge you $20-25 - this makes their little MBAs heart's sing .

What they don't realize (presumably never having flown cattle class) and Southwestern do - is this means everyone carries a roll-on bag and spends 20minutes trying to fit it into the overhead and another 20mins trying to get it out - so the airlines has saved a $1 handling fee but has a plane tied up for an extra 30-40minutes at the gate, costing $50K/hour!

What actually happens on most airlines is they end up gate checking your bags anyway. This means they need more ramp staff to handle them and have an even longer delay as everybody climbs over each other on the jetbridge trying to find their identical roll on.