Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2003

I heard today from the corridors of power at Manchester Airport that we
should expect a positive announcement very soon on a 2x weekly Manchester to
Jeddah service by Saudia.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031209/dctu023_1.html
   US Airways plans on restarting PIT-LGW next summer.  This is
surprising news given all the talk about US abandoning its PIT hub and
shutting down PIT-LGW indefinitely just two months ago.  It looks as

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http://www.click10.com/news/2695122/detail.html
Commissioners Make Decision On Runway Expansion
POSTED: 7:25 AM EST December 10, 2003
UPDATED: 9:54 AM EST December 10, 2003

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Qatar Airways has decided to buy four
Airbus aircraft for $3 billion, including options to purchase another
10 planes, its chairman said Tuesday.
Qatar Airways's Akbar al-Baker signed the deal Tuesday with Airbus CEO

   I'm glad the airlines are apparently, if the following report is true,
making good use of the billions and billions in taxpayer money they were given
by Bush with the excuse that they deserved it because the events of 911 had
reduced their profits (even though they'd been losing ...

Tried to book this route for sometime in February on the flybe website
and kept getting a 'no available flights' response.  I called flybe and
was informed that the service was ceasing on 6 January.
Airlines make a lot of noise when new routes are added but keep very

A canadian citizen, kidnapped by americans in Afghanistan 2 years ago and kept
at Gantanamo bay was released when americans admitted to themselves that the
guy had nothing to do with terrorism.
The problem is that since they had denied to Canada that they had kidnapped

Does anybody know any sites where I can book a flight ticket from Europe
(Germany) to Alaska over the North Pole (without flying over a south USA
territory)? I would like to go for holidays to Alaska and I'm looking for
any airline which has in its offer such direct connections ...

Need ticket for one adult to fly from SJD to either OAK or SFO on or about
17 Jan 2004.

I recently did a google review of skyauction and found that
several users were satisfied, but complained of not getting their
reservations confirmed until the last minute.
I entered a bid with them and the process kinda smelled. Like they

We are going to the carribean on Planet Airways. It is a charter. Has anyone
had experience with them either positive or negative? I would appreciate an
email and a post here as i check both

Don't know if this is the right group to post this to but here goes.
I plan to fly to New York from the UK in the new year for a city break type
visit.  While searching for a flight obviously it gives prices for flying to
all 3 terminals serving NYC.  Has anyone got experience of ...

 I have always been able to fly between Orlando and Reno for around 200.00
around the end of Jan.  I have been searching fares the past few weeks for
my trip 1-18 to1-25 and all I come up with is 300.00+.  A few years back I
flew out of West Palm for 198.00 because I live just ...

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