A cool marketing exercise no doubt, but how was this legal: in the piece the journalist/blogger talks about the flight being open cockpit, him seemingly in the jumpseat through most of the flight, with other passengers visiting the cockpit in flight freely, and then a massive food cart with drinks right up against the pedestal (you know that Coke is just itching to get inside the FMS at the slightest hint of turbulence) ? After the outcry of the Chinese pilot (which I understand is of a different magnitude seeing as the pax was seated at the controls), but how is this not sanctioned too? Do EL Al just make their own rules? I thought cockpit sterility was a fairly unbreakable covenant at any respectable airline. I certainly wouldn't wan't this configuration flying over any populated areas...
