Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2003

BOS-LHR 09:00 - 20:20 (Ok it says 8:20pm)
The breakfast:
Would you like omlette or pancakes - I took the omlette - as it was served
at about 10:00am which is 3pm destination time I guess I could have taken

Advice needed...
I have a Northwest flight out of EWR to MOB via MEM on Saturday morning
10am.
Problem is that it looks like a whole bucket-load of snow is approaching

Ok, so it's not a complete trip report but here are some notes/thoughts from
my recent trip.
25 November
HUY-AMS-ARN-SFT KL1490/KL1114/JZ262

Although not Amsterdam   but the following service has been announced
seemingly and the web site is in English:-
V-BIRD is the name of a new Dutch airline operating from the
up-to-the-minute Niederrhein Airport, 30 miles north of Düsseldorf,

Just being built, not listed in search engines yet.
http://www.insideairports.com
I have heard the site is going to be very comprehensive in everything about
airports, airlines, and aircraft once they get some general things online.

Had the weirdest upgrade of my life.  Flew USAir from MCO to
CLT.  I don't fly them much so I've got about 7000 mile lifetime
total.  I walk up to use their self service kiosk.  I had just
recently bought the ticket and when I did I couldn't get an

George W. Bush, For the Record:
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost by more than 80%  The media portrayed me as
someone voters could not trust, and charged my campaign with dishonesty,

Very short business trip to Porto.
Arrived at LHR 2 Hours prior to departure Thursday 13th Nov for flight
TP5189 at 19:45, no queue at check-in, so picked up my boarding pass and
straight through Security, a little queue but no more than 10 mins to get

I am working on a project that makes use of IATA's airport/city codes.
IATA's list of codes has been very helpful, but is lacking a dozen or
so codes.
Below is a list of proposed country/city codes that are not presently

Is there a safe way to buy major airline FF miles.
? If so how and how much should I expect to pay.

Is there an upgrade strategy website that someone can point me to?
Thanks -

I have a forthcoming trip which necessitates a 5.5 hour  layover
at Seattle, what facilities are available to while away the time.?
I don't think there is an airport aircraft viewing area, are there
accessible lounges.? Anything.? :-))

Also on Saturday morning, a DHL courier plane landed safely at Baghdad
International Airport after a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile hit
one of its engines, according to military sources at the airport. No
one was injured.

My wife & I are booked on a Scandinavia cruise on Celebrity's
"Constellation" out of Dover, England in August of 2004.  We plan to fly
into London Heathrow & then travel to Dover.  Does anyone have
recommendations on how to get from Heathrow to Dover & then back to Heathrow