Fair play to El Al, when the service was first introduced I would never have believed its success however I led to believe that although loads are not amazingly high, there is still a profit to be made from the LTN-TLV route. Astounding the amount of staff they employ though, when I flew with them last month there was
at least 10 members of Security Staff at the gate + Ground Handling Agents + Cleaners + Armed Police officers.
From the EMA thread I picked up this Govt. report on airports within 2.5hrs of the upcoming Olympics, and had a little read on what they had to say about LTN. Aside from the usual trollop that they ramble about (excellent catering, many executive lounges etc) I noted an interesting detail on the aircraft 'Limitations' section.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/regional/l...ortoptions.pdf
AN A380?!
Since when has LTN ever been able to handle an A380, I'm sure they do not have any stands that are capable of accomodating the beast?