Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / September 2003

Veterans of mile high episodes are those that had this experience
without a plan or a partner.
The authentic mile high experience is a chance meeting which quickly
develops into a in-flight entertainment for both participants.

Sooner or later, but not for now.  It would have been interesting if the
Iberia Airlines flight had enough passengers for the flight today - would
they have of diverted it?
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-plane18.html

Why do most (perhaps all) airlines dim the cabin lighting during nighttime
takeoffs?
Seems to me, in the unlikely event of a crash, they would want as much light as
possible for the passengers to see by while evacuating or to be seen by rescue

Getting scarrier and scarrier.
http://tinyurl.com/nzju
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[491 days to regime change in the US and counting.]
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Billionaire mounting anti-Bush effort
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/09170000aaa01ac9.upi&Sys
=rmmiller&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News

SkyHigh Airlines to commence service Jan.1, 2004.
www.skyhighairlines.com

With apparent unwillingness of ICANN to act against Verisign, it seems that we
will have to act on our own to restore functionality.
TO this end, the BIND consortium has released patches to BIND 9.2 which will
return NXDOMAIN when a request comes back from Verisign as a positive ...

happened on a recent flight i took from JFK to SJO. after landing in Costa
Rica, i noticed that the same FA that was responsible for our area on the
plane was staying at the hotel that i was.
what was strange was that there was a big ruckus at the front desk because

My next Europe flight has me leaving from Chicago's O'Hare for London. I fly
up there to make this connection. I hear that this airport is the busiest in
the nation and thankfully, I have a several hour lay over. I've visited
their site but was wondering if anyone could tell me what ...

Just out of interest, does anyone actually take heed to any of the
information on the safety demo given befiore take off.
On the majority of flights I have been on people keep talking and dont
listen to them. And once when I my flight was due to have an emergency

I'll be flying American Airlines from CVG to ORD. The flight is on an
Embraer 140 (ERD whatever that means,) upon return, I will be flying on an
Embraer 145 (ER4 whatever that means, again.) Does anyone know about these
aircrafts? Which seats should I avoid?

Flying, today, on CO, SFO to HOU, I was seated next to a Businessman in F.
Businessman had a Blackberry.  In case you don't know what those are,
they're PDAs that have, built-in, two-way email capability.  In other words,
they are radios, that send and receive, just like digital ...

For the first time in my life i'm on a totally independent trip. Just got my
flight tickets and it recommends that i should reconfirm onward and return
flights 72 hours prior to depature.
How important is it do this?? I cant imagine many people out of the

What is the preferred seat in business (on a long flight): upper deck
window (not an exit row; isles not available) OR main cabin isle in a
center section? Any wisdom would be great.

All airlines suck because they won't let me travel for free or put my
refrigerator in the overhead storage bin.  Plus the stewardesses spend
almost all their time helping other people instead of me and won't let me
feel them up.