Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2004

There's a very confusing story on the BBC website today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3378057.stm
       But new passports issued after 26October must hold "biometric"
       data such as digital images or fingerprints - or a visa will be

How spammers almost ruined Christmas
By Mike Smartt
Booking airline seats online has big advantages but there are unforeseen
pitfalls, no thanks to those pesky spammers. You've been warned.

Let me get this straight: a 737 has crashed under unexplained
circumstances, but probably due to some catastrophic failure, and all
people worry about on this group is toilet queues and whether it worth
watching a TV show about check-in staff?

"The airline has increased this fare since you made your selection."
That's the message I get, repeatedly, when I try to book a flight from SFO
to CDG.  When you do a search on Orbitz for SFO-CDG, 7/17 outbound, 7/30
return, it gives you a whole bunch of choices in the $860-$890 ...

I booked tickets with Ryanair but I won't be able to fly this weekend.
Montpellier is a nice city in the south of France :
http://www.ryanair.com/destinfo03/dests/destinfo.html?id=France&lang=&target=mpl
I give away my tickets, you just need to pay £30 to change the passenger

I am looking to buy some return tickets to Ethiopia. Can anyone advise on
bucket shops selling discounted tickets in the UK.
Allresponses greatly appreciated,
Regards,

I have lots of skymiles and want to book a first class ticket to go
somewhere on vacation in 2 months.  I tried a number of destinations
and called Delta and they said, yes we have first class tickets but
not for you with skymiles?

Can anyone please tell me which French cities are served by single-leg
flights from USA and from where in USA.
Thanks for your help.

Five airlines which have such poor safety records they have been
banned in some countries are having their identities kept secret in
an information black hole.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3372339.stm

I want to fly into airport 'A' and out of airport 'B' and it is a
little cheaper to buy a round trip ticket than a 1-way to Europe right
now.  If I use one leg of ticket '1' and the return leg of ticket '2'
from my two round trip tickets, is there any way to set it up do the

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man was found dead Tuesday night in the wheel well of a
British Airways plane at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport,
authorities said.
It is the second body found in the wheel well of a plane at the airport in

WASHINGTON 12/25/03 -- An unidentified aircraft was shot down near the
White House at approximately 23:58 EST after it failed to heed air
traffic control warnings about flying in restricted air space.
Officials have yet to identify the type of craft, but are hoping to

Passengers, airline staff and the acting Prime Minister, John Anderson,
reacted with incredulity yesterday to the latest US directive for passengers
to be prevented from queuing outside aircraft toilets during long-haul
flights across the Pacific. (Full report Page 2)

Why is there an excessive noise during the first 10 - 15 minutes of a
flight on the Boeing 777s? It sounds as if the engines are going to
break apart - as if the blades in the engine are having an unusuall
resistance and gradually the sound goes away. Not all aircraft has

http://www.sacbee.com/content/travel/story/8058260p-8990946c.html
Sacramento lands a hot ticket to N.Y.
By Andrew LePage -- Bee Staff Writer - (Published January 7, 2004)
Discount airline JetBlue Airways announced Tuesday that it will offer