Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2003

Not going until next May, but I require  decent spacing and room to move
about on this 8 hr plus flight.  What is the best equipment going across
the pond right now, say the best three?  Thanks in advance---

Eaten missionary's family head for Fiji
The residents of a Fiji village are preparing to apologise to the family of
a English Christian missionary who was eaten by tribes people 136 years
ago.

United officially announced the formation of Ted.  The line will hub in DEN
with destinations of LAS, PHX, MCO, TPA, FLL, and a couple other cities.
This will replace all mainline UA service on those routes.

For the purpose of allocating frequent flyer miles, is the distance
(in miles) between airports consistant between carriers?
Assuming it is, is there a web site where I can punch up the distance
between any 2 airports?

Hello everyone;
I was wondering if perhaps someone could explain to me the folowing:
Yesterday I was checking ticket prices (on Expedia and Travelocity) for
flights from Toronto to Cairo for the next year (in the spring time). The

There apparently is an offer in this weekends daily and Sunday Telegraph.
Buy a discounted United ticket to the USA (either coast) and get a free
internal return flight for 1 GBP.
Probably lots of conditions as usual - but may be of interest to someone.

I think it's a rather dumb idea.  The airport has been plain Hartfield for
over twenty years.  Jackson is getting his name put on the new terminal,
isn't that enough?
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Checking Opodo for prices for FRA-VIE and MUC-VIE gives
a great price of just over 100 GBP.  I guess this is not surprising
as both Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines fly that route.  So I was
surprised when I checked CDG-FRA, thinking that it might even

Gov't Warns of al-Qaida Cargo Plane Plot
Nov 7, 11:14 PM (ET)
Copyright © 2003 Associated Press.
By LESLIE MILLER

BA flight cancelled over 'drinking' allegations
British Airways is investigating allegations that a pilot, a co-pilot
and a stewardess were drinking before they arrived for an
Oslo-to-London flight.

How many songs are there in which the lyrics name an airline. The only
one I can think of off-hand is "Back in the U.S.S.R.: by the Beatles
which mentions the old BOAC.

I am cautiously optimistic about this news.  Time will tell, but I for
one will be buying a few of these locks as soon as I can.  I suspect
it will take awhile for the boneheads working for the TSA to get the
word, so I'm sure some of the new locks will be cut anyway.  Anyway,

A far cry from its "dead" years:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-midway12.html
Midway's traffic going up, up, up
November 12, 2003

Has any one expiernenced United Airlines issuing wrong tickets
(flights, dates, destinations etc.) and not honoring changes? Heard
rumor and was wondering if pattern is emerging. U may reply direct to
edatebay@aol.com if u prefer.

From 1st December, Norwegian regional airline Widerøe will start a 6 times
weekly from Bergen to Manchester using their DHC8s.