Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2004

Northwest Airlines gave information on passengers to the federal
government for a secret air-security project after the Sept.11 attacks,
the airline has admitted,after initially denying that it had.
Northwest is the second carrier to be identified as secretly passing

What a scam!  First Class and Business Class on European airlines is no
different from Economy Class.  It's the same seats separated by a flimly
little curtain that they throw over the seats.  I can't believe they get
away with that crap.  In some of the planes there isn't even a ...

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Several years ago we stayed at a budget hotel in Ipswich that was part of a
nationwide British chain. Most of the properties were attached to reasonable
reatarants as well. They were much more attractively priced than Courtyards,
although they were very basic, ie. no telephones in ...

a while ago, there was much speculation that a new long-haul airline which
would serve the Far East and possibly the USA from Manchester would be
starting operations this year. anyone know anymore details?
cgh1

I live in Casper, WY and my family is planning a cruise to Alaska this
coming June. Just wondering if we should buy the airfare through
Princess Cruises. A friend came across a website called buying cruises
dot com or something like that and they offer airfare through the

Halliburton staff sacked 'for taking bribes'
Halliburton, the oil services company formerly run by the US
vice-president, Dick Cheney, was yesterday embroiled in new
accusations of corruption after it sacked two workers over allegations

Ok, it's easy to see how plug-type doors work on 737s, 747s, etc.  But how come
Airbus says their doors are plug-type too if they only move outwards and are not
bigger on the inside to plug the door frame from within when pressurized?  What
makes them plug-type?

You often hear in discussions of individuals who turn up at an airport, with
suitcase packed but no holiday.
It is said they scour the "desks" looking for very late holiday package
deals, often flying of somewhere same day!!

....in 1959 American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with
the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.

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Every time some nigger becomes rich and famous he leaves the ghetto and bleaches
his skin (figuratively or literally as the case may be) and only hangs out with
rich and famous white folks and forgets about his brothas still stuck back in
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Dunno if this is the place to ask this, but I wondered if this sort of thing
is common?
An interesting scenario arose yesterday at Lyon airport. I was waiting at
the gate (along with about 280 others) for the inbound Thomas Cook flight,