Let's say this up front: I am rooting for OpenSkies. It's an airline. Cheered for an airline lately? Didn't think so. OpenSkies is tiny at this point, but it does something very few other airlines do: provides luxurious, stress-free transatlantic service at a really good value. So you know the odds are against it.
The new carrier is a boutique subsidiary of British Airways that flies 64-seat, single-aisle 757s to Amsterdam and Paris from Newark and J.F.K. It has two cabin classes: in the back is a 40-seat premium economy section called Prem+ that is basically discounted business class. The seats...