Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2003

(CNN) -- Anyone who has traveled lately knows that planes are jam-packed.
And more passengers than ever are getting bumped. Do you know what to do if
this happens to you?
According to the October Department of Transportation Consumer Report,

PPS Travel office in Pleasant hill,CA will be closing permanently as
of 12/05/2003. A reservations center in Denver, CO will handle all
future travel requests.

Anyone know the seatpitch on Mytravel A330
I understand that they use a 3,3,3 configuration on the A330-200

I'm looking for a website that will give me the cheapest fare for a
given route but where I can specify, say, a 1 month time period for
departure.  I've tried applefares.com and skyscanner.com, but these
only seem to search budget airlines (I'm specifically looking at a

http://www.forbes.com/newswire/2003/10/30/rtr1130342.html
Orbitz security breached, e-mail addresses taken
Reuters, 10.30.03, 7:23 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Orbitz, the online travel agent, said Thursday that it

What are the chances?
I'm flying AC codeshare YYZ-ORD-SAN on UA metal next friday.  Had no window
seats according to AC when my booking was changed.  Both outbound segments are
in the middle seat.  If I get to the airport early enough, anyone know the

Needed to return to Manila at short notice, Gulf air are the only airline
who gave me a good price... Heathrow-Bahrain-Manila...   Airbus A340
Anyone know what seat I should choose, or any hints on what Gulf are like??

At the least we should get some vivid displays of Aurora Borealis.  At the
worst, communications could be affected.
Here's the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-BRF-Solar-Flare.html

  I have my first trip to Singapore coming up soon.   Can anyone tell
me the best way of getting from the airport to the Novatel Hotel?
  Thnaks.
PD

From USAViation message boards:
You have to keep a very important thing in mind, regardless of your loathing
for specific posters on this board who happen to be AA/FAs (or maybe not who
really knows) labor has legitimate complaints, and labor has just as much of

I have several questions here and would greatly appreciate any assistance
that can be provided.
I'm going to be flying into EWR at 10:00pm and meeting an associate who is
flying into JFK around 11:00pm on a Friday night.  Any advice as to what the

Yours truly is trying to get from ABQ-SNA today, with very little
luck, due to the raging wildfires in SoCal today...
My original itin called for HP FLT 769 from ABQ-PHX, and connecting to
HP FLT 660 from PHX-SNA.  However, the flight into SNA has been

I was listening to an "expert" on the radio the other day.  He was talking
about the crisis which will occur when we start to run out of oil in a few
decades.  He said that although we may find alternative energy sources for
cars and most industry, there is not even any theoretical ...

I'm looking for CHEAP tickets from PHX to either BKK,SPS (or other C.A.city)
Leave anytime in Oct. Return approx 30 days later. Email me with price, other
details:
zyclonkid[at]fast-DELETE-mail(dot)com