Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2003

Two questions:
1. These days, with the extra security, will airlines (SQ, LH) allow me to
take my photographic tripod onboard as carry-on (a decent sized Manfrotto
tripod)? I have done this in the past, but not since August 2001.

I am not even sure why I am writing this, perhaps just to vent.
I was in Toronto ready to board a flight to Chicago.  I go through U.S.
Immigration, but needed to spend some time with the authorities to clarify
some issues.  Someone from United (on which airline I was to fly) came ...

Kind of curious, how wide are the aisles of commercial aircraft?  Thanks for
any info.
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Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

An American gentleman was traveling by himself on a bus through Mexico. A nice local man sat next to him on the crowded bus. They began a friendly conversation and the local man warned the American about the thieves that prey on travelers. He warned the American to watch out for ...

I'm giving away a special Travel Certificate I was selling on Ebay @ US$24.
I've never received any complaint about them and I use them for myself too.
Now I'm giving them away for just $4 each.
Yes, the price is so low because and include s/h.

If I'm flying international with no domestic connection is the TSA
cutting my locks or not?
I'm flying out of Chicago to Bangkok via Narita.

I have never gotten on the wrong plane, but there have been times when
something like this could have happened to me...
Once, I took a wrong turn down a jetway that had a 'Y' in it, leading
to two different planes (same departure gate).  I don't recall the

 Has the actual route (waypoints) been announced for the new Toronto
to Delhi flight?
 There was a long discussion here in 2001 about non-stops from Toronto
and Chicago to India and the direct route is over Siberia

    I was watching the PBS documentary they were showing this week
about AF1, and as they had shown the progression from the planes used
back in Franklin Roosevelt's tenure as President, to the B707 from
Kennedy to Reagan, to the current AF1 (at least that they showed in the

How do you find out about the sales that a certain airline may be
having? I do get the emails from the airlines but many times they have
one day sales and I never seem to hear about them.

I am pleased that I have beaten hotwire and orbitz once again.  I
started out at $85 dollars a ticket and changed dates once (and back to
the original) and  fought off alot of counteroffers by lowerfare and
priceline.  Being priceline savy helped me realize that the

I just hate to be right all the time...
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/02/Columns/Robbed_of_trust_in_th.shtml
Robbed of trust in the air travel industry

Just tried to find total fare and routing from LAX to Kotzebue (up on
the Chukchi Sea in Alaska), and it kept sending me from LAX to San
Diego, facrynoutloud, then to Anchorage. Why start in wrong direction?
Any clues out there?

I need to buy a one-way ticket from Barcelona (BCN) to Madrid (MAD).  It's
my understanding that Air Europa, Spanair, and Iberia provides service on
this route... perhaps there are others such as discounters I'm not aware of
(?)

Last month I started a new group at Yahoo, which is specialized for trips
(holidays / vacations) in and to the United States of America.
Now, the 'USA Trips Group' already has over a 100 members, and is a fast
growing discussion group :)