Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2003

Can anyone recommend travel insurance which would also cover flights, if the
company ceased trading.
We are booking with Helios and they are not ATOL or ABTA, so just want some
extra peace of mind.  Would Helios count as Scheduled flight?

Anyone know if it just to be a once a day Rome service?
cgh1
Manchester

...is supposedly the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  Does anyone know offhand what
the busiest air travel day of the week is, *during* the week of Thanksgiving?
Just curious.

Get a few thousand t-shirts printed up saying "JF Mezei Trolled My Newsgroup And
All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt".  Sell them for $19.95 (get them made cheap in
some shithole like Malaysia or China or Montreal).  With as many newsgroups as
this motherf..ker trolls you'll make a ...

Business trip to Hanoi and Bangkok.
Sunday 9 November 2003, Amsterdam - Hong Kong CX 270, Airbus 340 - 300
Scheduled 13:20 - 08:00*, Actual 13:52 - 08:21*
Train to Schiphol. At check-in around noon. They have problems at Business

We just returned from a lovely RTW: 13 flights, 11 countries and nine
airlines. Number of times we were asked (or told) to remove our shoes:
zero. We simply didn't fly in the USA.
It was also interesting to note the cutlery provided with the meals. On

This is my first business class international travel with Singapore
Airline, would you prefer upstairs or downstairs?  Please advise.
thanks.

EWR-FRA-AMS-FRA-EWR Trip Report
 Time to go to Europe again.  I hadn't been there since Dec of 2001.  This
was one of my extended 4-day weekends to the continent.  This was a cheapo
$370.00 LH coach fare.  LH got $244 and taxes got the rest.  The day I left

Hi, can anybody give me some information about the SAS Business-Class
lounge at HEL (size, service etc.) ?!
Thanks a lot !

Is there anywhere interesting to go from ICN (Seoul) on a 3 hour 40 minute
stop-over? I have never been to Korea and would love to see even a tiny bit
of it. It will be on a Friday afternoon in December. Any airport tax or
other issues? (I don't need a visa for South Korea)

Check it out:
http://boeingmedia.com/images/one.cfm?image_id=8153&release=t
The more I read about this plane, the more I think it's going to be an
enormous winner for Boeing.

I've flown a number of times after september 11th and have noticed the extra
security checks taking place with me at each point of boarding.
Just to fill you in on some background, I'm of Pakistani descent, born and
brought up in the UK.  I have a Muslim name and look of middle ...

As you all know I have been trolling the newsgroups furiously for many
years now.  As you also know I am shameless, even after I'm exposed I just
keep on trolling and come up with such lame excuses like "It's not really
me, it's someone else! Despite the fact that the headers are ...

Does anyone here know what the rules are for an "upgrade" from Asiamiles to
one of the levels of the Marco Polo Club of Cathay Pacific? I am currently
an Asiamiles member and have done > 45,000 miles on CX in 3 months.
The www.asiamiles.com and www.cathaypacific.com websites don't ...

Complete story from USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003-11-25-dhl-strike_x.htm
Treb