Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2004

Hello people,
How's everyone doing? I have been away twice recently and I'll try to get
around to writing trip reports. Both trips certainly had their eventfulness.
Mostly to my annoyance, and mostly caused by KLM.

So my parents-in-law are off to see the recent emigres in MEL next month -
lucky sods.  We've been searching all the usual suspects (Travelocity,
Opodo, Expedia, airline's own sites, TravelSupermarket etc. etc.) for fares
BHD-MEL (or even DUB-MEL) and are just getting ridiculous ...

Last year, airlines had to cancel many flights to/from asia due to Sars. And
many airlines blames piss poor financials on Sars.
Right now, the Bird Flue problem seems to be getting worse. How long before
airlines start to feel the effect ?  How long before airports put back the

Woman passes airport security with stun gun, knife
Sunday, January 25, 2004 Posted: 2:03 PM EST (1903 GMT)
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A woman passed through security screening at
New York's LaGuardia Airport with a stun gun and knife in her purse --

It seems to be an accepted fact that for budget flight operators such
as Easyjet, the nearer the time to departure you book the higher is
the seat cost.
Is this true of the "blue chip" airlines: BA, KLM, Air France etc. who

Have a trip coming up via Continental Express on an Embraer RJ135.
Haven't seen one.  From a seating chart online, it looks like the front two
seats on the right side will have more leg room.  I'm 6' 5" and dread the
cramped seating.

David Kay, the bush regime's head of the thousands of inspectors searching for
the WMDs Busb promised would be found had resigned, stating to foreign news
agency (Reuters) that all evidence points to Hussein having stopped its WMD
programmes just after the first Gulf war and that ...

Does anyone know if Budapest (Terminal 2B) has a lounge that BA passengers
can gain access to using their silver/emerald status.
MC

Does anyone know which companies you can actually collect paper Air Miles
from, you see an awful lot of these for sale on ebay but to my knowledge all
companies now use the electronic method of  passing  Air Miles on to their
customers.

I have just returned from 2 weeks in Europe and I would like to share
my frustration with Northwest Airlines.I left from Memphis flying into
Amsterdam and then on to Copenhagen.Last year Northwest was usuing its
partner KLM for the trip.However this year I was not so lucky.To begin

Once airside can I use my silver status (exec club) to use the lounges even
if I am not flying on a one world airline.  I presume I cannot.  Do they
need to see my ticket.  I just thought I'd ask anyway because when I have
flown club world before, those with cards did not show their ...

Heard it on the news this morning.
Boeing/Wichita is the largest airline industry around.  Talk of the
company being for sale is for real.  Is it true or not?  Don't know.
Heard something like 12,000

Where i can find low fares and bed to travel in Europe.
Thanks
Sargo
Portugal

BBC News
Gun cartridges alert at Glasgow airport
The find was made in a departure lounge
A security operation has been launched after spent shotgun cartridges

A plane is going to crash into the Statue of Liberty.  I advise
everybody NOT to board planes.