Yes. It's beginning to look a lot like Monty Python's Black Knight scene to me.
Anybody else find it strange that they would consider The Paris to LA flight? By that I mean, when do they take the plane over? If they do so early in the flight they will have to communicate with several towers, thereby exposing themselves to being shot down, if they wait until they're over their supposed target (Las Vegas), then there won't be enough fuel to do much damage. In my opinion the only chance they have would be flights out of Dulles or Reagan, the target being something in DC, where they risk an immediate passenger riot.
This all smacks of diversion to me.