Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2003

Last week a New Hampshire politician had a loaded gun in his luggage.
He was denied boarding and received a severe reprimand from the powers
that be.
Just another example of overkill from the government inspectors.

[Good to see that corporate governance and accounting reforms are
making huge inroads in protecting shareholders from such theivery by
CEO's and executives  - NOT!  And sorry, there is no news group called
corp.executive.perks.squander.shareholder.money.travel.air news group

I couldn't find "Airport" last weekend.  When is it on?
e.

With increased security is it still possible to visit the various
terminals at LHR?  I am going to London in early December and when I
go to London I like to spend a day at Heathrow just looking around and
having lunch.

My wife just booked our Christmas vacation flight to Chicago through a travel
agent. Since the flight is booked on United, she asked for paper tickets just in
case they disappear before our flight, but was told they don't issue paper
tickets anymore, not even if we paid extra. The ...

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/
"August 2 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and
the U.S. Department of State today suspended two programs
that allow certain international air passengers to travel

Just saw this post. Transit travel, through USA, without Visa will no longer
be allowed
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4022105.html

i'm surprising my wife with a trip to NY for our wedding anniversary later
this year (we're in the UK), but while we are there I want to fly to San
Fran as well (surprise a cpl of friends!). Our LDN to EWR tickets are part
of a B A deal

How can I figure out where the aircraft serving my flight is coming FROM?  
I'd like to be able to check it's arrival status before leaving the
airport as well.  
It's pretty easy if you are getting on a flight that is stopping at the

I was glad to see this.  As far as I'm concerned, the argument was
ridiculous and this will only prove to give consumers lower fares
through greater competition.  I'm glad Orbitz is over this, they're a
great resource:

[Haven't seen Powell in the news much lately.  He must be tired being
the 'house slave'. Especially since Condi Rice seems to be doing his
job anyways.  The house of cards that is the Bush-2 administration is
slowly collapsing. - Ed.]

Jambo!  Looking for KLM seating charts...specifically the 747-400 and
the 767.  I found one bad link at the KLM Corp. website, other than
that, no luck so far on the web.  Much thanks to any who can direct!
-Cody

Did anyone else see this? Any thoughts or comments?

Notice that psycho kook netstalker coward Alan Erskine is now posting
anonymous messages with his own signature and then blaming it on others.
It seems he is not getting enough punishment for his net stalking / kooking
/ psychotic attacks so he is asking for more.  I had pretty much ...

Hey travel gurus,
I have this situation where I know I need to fly somewhere, but I
don't know which city yet. I won't know until maybe 4 days before I go
which one. If I wait until I know, the fares will be prohibitively