Sir - Good luck to Ogle Design ("Visions of splendour", Flight International, 13-19 September, P33).
Whatever success it may achieve is likely to be pretty evanescent, given the greed of airlines and the penny-pinching attitude of so many passengers.
Who can forget the fanfare which accompanied the introduction of the Boeing 747, with its nine-across economy seating, very quickly increased to ten. American Airlines even had a piano and a tiny dance-floor at the rear of its early 747s.
I fondly remember a 1953 peasant-class flight from Havana through New York to London in a KLM Douglas DC4. We enjoyed far more room than one does today in the typical business class of any narrowbody.
BRIAN WITHERS
Toronto, Canada
Source: Flight International
