Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2004

I agree with the current cancellation of flights due to security concerns.
However, does it worry anyone that the terrorists could use this as a tactic
for future economic warfare against the West?  Could it be possible to keep
making constant threats to commercial aviation without ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3353375.stm
Personally I think this is a bad idea, I would rather see more security on
the ground if more security is really necessary, I'm really not sure what a
terrorist would try and do on-board now that we have locked flight deck

Hellllooo
Has anybody flown Lufthansa lately ?? If so , can you please let me know if
veggie meal preference is to be intimated before the flight or will i get an
option on the flight ? Too lazy to call up the customer service lines.

I ended up having deep vein thrombosis from my flight back home from
Thailand.  At least that was a large part of it. That virus I got hit
with forced me to just sleep all day every day for 5 days prior to my
flight.  Not good.  Then I was so weak and tired I never (rarely) got

How many airlines aren't checking passports at the gates on
International flights? The other day I flew Chicago to London on
United and there was no passport check whatsoever at the gate. This
affectively means that the airline cannot account for every passenger

Latest news here is that the flights to DC are being
cancelled because BA pilots won't fly with armed
air marshals. Enter the Ninjas or BA might be barred from US.
Errol

Hi, I would like know how is the sea temperature in Red Sea in
February-March.
Can I snorkel with no suite? Is it water temperature enough cold?
Thank you so much.

Skymall has a small ionizer to hang around your  neck
and supposedly purify the air you breath.
Does this device have any actual value?

I'm hoping to go for a long weekend skiing later this month, and need to get
a good deal from Luton, Stansted or East Midlands (mebbes Birmingham I
s'pose) to go into either Geneva or Lyon. Only really interested in direct
flights, as time will be of the essence.

Anyone any experience of what the deal is with the car hire at Newcastle
airport? I normally rent from Newcastle city centre branches but my schedule
for the week means they would be closed by the time I got there.
I know where the desks (specifically National) are in the terminal ...

If I have very frequent flyer status on one Star Alliance partner, and I
am flying on another, do I have the same privileges on all?  For
example, if I want to upgrade do I get the same priority, and with the
same lead time?  Can I book seats with extended leg room?  If I'm

Why is there such a terrible disconnect between
car rentals in the US vs those in the UK?
There seems to be a complete failure in efficiency
and service levels. The prices are way up on what

I have headphones bought a few years ago, which i wear
on flights (with or without plugging them into a music
machine), but they are physically uncomfortable on the
ears, so I want to replace them.

When, say, Iberia flys a totally within Spain flight do the pilot and tower
people speak English ot Spanish to each other?
Gary 'Gatsby' Nichols

Here is an idea that seems logical and fare.
On a plane, there must be a certain number of oversized seats for larger
people, for which the airline maybe would charge a higher price; and a
certain number of smaller seats for skinny people for which airline maybe