Originally Posted by noam

Actually with Brittish the flight is often shorter - especially to the westcoast.

Instead of flying TLV - NYC - Los Angeles
you fly TLV - LONDON - Los Angeles and you actually save almost an hour of flight time.

As for the planes being shitty TLV - London/Frankfurt - this varries. You gotta check the type of the plane before making a reservation. They do have 777/747 doing TLV - London. I flew one just a few weeks ago.

Oh well, anything is better than El Al.