Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2003

Wow!  Bush must have had his accountants give him figures on which
votes meant the most to him....the religious group or the gay group
and the gays lost out.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/945974.asp?pne=msntv

Well folks, someone in the administration must have realized how
stupid and dangerous it was to make public their earlier decision
concerning the Air Marshals so now they have quickly changed it:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/945774.asp?pne=msntv

So Alan, since you like to challenge people to come to Melbourne and find
you, where's your address???
Just posting empty threats?  You're very silent on this.  You're extremely
vocal on everything else.  What happened, cat got your tongue?

I'm meeting with someone who is flying in to LAX today.  We'd like to
conduct our meeting either at or very nearby the airport.  Does anyone know
any non-airside restaurants, coffee shops, etc. in the immediate vicinity?
Thanks!

As a once-a-year traveler, I don't always know what I'm getting into
when booking online.  Found great fares for upcoming STL (Seattle) to
CLT (Charlotte) trip on Orbitz, airline & equipement clearly indicated,
etc.  Nice site to use!  But when ready to add a car rental, Internet

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/07/29/offbeat.sea.cow.scan.ap/index.html
SARASOTA, Florida (AP) -- Airport security workers went underwater to
perform a sea cow security scan.
When a manatee failed to pass a metal capsule it swallowed for a study,

One more question for you seasoned travelers of the Big Apple:
My mom needs to get from PHX to JFK and then on to Rio.
The Varig flight departs JFK at 7:40pm and most flights between PHX
and JFK arrive into NYC either very early in the morning or too late

Can anybody tell me what the current check in procedure is when flying
JAL out of Chicago? I'd like to have as smooth a check an experience
as possible.
Thanks.

If I fly into JFK from Europe on Delta (probably into terminal
#3 and then into customs), and fly out on domestic Northwest
(probably from terminal 4E or 4W), will I stay behind security
or will I be forced to run the TSA gauntlet again?  My flight on

I will be flying on KLM from BKK-LHR, connecting at AMS. Given that
the final leg will be an internal EU flight, which terminal am I
likely to arrive in at LHR?
side note - gripe about NWA, on which this flight was booked (FF

Well it looks like Michael Gardner has found the love of his life.  Another
netkop kook psycho stalker just like him.  Love at first sight!
At least they will both have some company when they put them behind bars.
There's not much to do in jail but f.ck each other in the a.s all day ...

The tickets from New York to Orlando are very inexpensive in
comparison to the round trip tickets to Charlotte, NC.
I can purchase  flight tickets to Orlando, that has a connection in
Charlotte and deplane there. On the return, what happens when I try to

In article <3ec30296$0$16388$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> on May 15,2003
you said to Paul Maxson:
"Want my address, fuckwit?  Look me up in the phone books - hint - I live
in

The Miguel Cruz FAQ
Part 1
1.  Who is this a.shole Miguel Cruz who floods all the groups with such
lame posts?

Wow, I must be WAY behind the times.
Just noticed on credit card, my TA charged me
$50 for a domestic ticket to an obscure location.
She explained that airlines were paying NO