Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2003

Has anyone heard of an airline offering near departure time an upgrade to
Business Class at a reduced price?  When I call to reconfirm a flight to
Europe, would it be worth asking if this is available?  Anyone done this?

Amazing how this bitch can't tell her head from her a.s and has to ask for
help 20 times a day but she can find an off-topic post and follow up to it
in about a second.  And she claims she loves the group so much!  Must be
why she's helping to ruin it by multiplying the off-topic ...

About Alan Erskine

I need a box delivered from NYC to London and am wondering if it would
be cheaper to just carry it myself or to use a courier service. The
box needs to be handled with care so I can't trust a regular shipper
like Fedex.

What restaurants are there in the US alongside major (or minor)
runways.  I know of
Flying Tigers - Buffalo, NY
94th Aero Squadron - College Park, MD

[Cheney full of bullshit on Iraq "war" - Ed.]
Cheney bullish on Iraq war
By Ian Pannell
BBC correspondent in Washington  

    http://www.airliners.net/open.file/225821/M/
    Saw this bird depart 25L at KLAS today, since 25R (main
departure runway) was closed due to maintenance from the field being
flooded. going through some other databases and info from Boeing, this

I'll probably be stuck with doing YYZ-YVR one way late in August.  How
annoying is the YYZ security farce at present?
Are they still doing 'random' checked baggage searches in public[1] or
have they moved luggage searches down below?

This kid has the right idea
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/07/25-ord-scout.htm

I am planning a trip involving a flight from London to Budapest and then
Budapest to Chisinau on a different airline. I will have a stop over of
about two hours and I have to buy two separate tickets from different
agents, when I check in at London can I check for the whole trip or ...

[Ironic: Free speech is denied to those that risk their lives to give
it to the people of Iraq. - Ed.]
Pentagon may punish GIs who spoke out on TV
Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer   Friday, July 18, 2003  

I'll be arriving into LHR at 10am from BKK via Amsterdam and will need
to get to either LGW or LTN to go on to Dublin (I will be meeting my
partner in London, arriving from Geneva, who will be flying into one
of these two airports).  Which is the easier airport to get to from

What's your favourite in travel guide books?
Take part in this online poll now at
http://www.travel-mania.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=35
Regards,

Can someone tell me what long haul flights fly over the island of
Borneo? and what path? I stays in a small town and never hear or see
any flight that fly over my town. Domestic flights into and out of
it..yes..

Don't remove them.
Let TSA earn their keep by having to inspect them.  If enough people use the
option of not removing them one of two things will happen:
1. There will be a big backlog of people for secondary screening and perhaps