Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2004

I would like to find a cheap flight from Germany to Ireland.  Any ideas?

Business trip to Hanoi
Wednesday 7 January
CX 270 Amsterdam - Hong Kong, Airbus 340-300
Scheduled 13:20 - 08:00*, actual 13:44 - 07:55*

Last year I did 12 trips across the Atlantic with Virgin Atlantic.
My default class is Premium Economy although on the last 5 round
trips I have been upgraded on every flight to Upper Class. Virgin
are very hard to fault and I'd fly them every time if I could.

I spent about £8,000 on a family holiday in Nevada and Arizona last
year - fantastic time with the kids. Even so, the people with
personality at the Immigration Desks at Newark still hauled me on for
one hour for no obvious reason. Couldn't even tell the kids what was

Will be going from Boston to Cebu in April for two weeks. Haven't been
there in a few years. Just wondering if any recent travellers to Cebu
could give advice on best fares/airlines/routes, etc. I used to like
Cathay Pacific, not sure the best advice now. Is PAL run by Cathay

source http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk
A row is set to break out over the announcement that East Midlands Airport will
change its name to Nottingham East Midlands Airport.
The announcement at a press conference this morning is sure to anger business

Never underestimate capacity for stupidity ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/3412123.stm

In 2005 apparently, one routing via Moscow the other Munich, using 340's.
Colin.

I've got a flight from Vancouver to Edmonton that my TA booked with Air
Canada.  The itinerary indicates that this leg is operated by "Zip Air."
Who are they?  I don't, as a rule, fly regional carriers.

US stars hail Iraq war whistleblower
THE OBSERVER
GCHQ worker Katharine Gun faces jail for exposing American corruption
in the run-up to war on Saddam. Now her celebrity supporters insist it

I'm looking for any suggestions or warnings on flights from Phoenix/Las
Vegas to Scotland (Glasgow or Edinburgh, preferably Glasgow). We have
been impressed with the services (pre-9/11) of Virgin  and United. I've
heard mixed reviews of BA and poor service from KLM. I'm not sure ...

MSY-IAD on United Express flights on a CRJ for about 2 hours and 45 minutes
hours would be an example.
UA do have A320 flights which seem to have a faster cruising speed at about
2 hours and 20 minutes and 737-500 flights seem to take the same amount of

Oh, c'mon!  Does Southwest actually give out shirts and pants AND $12
meal vouchers to every smelly person who attempts to board their
flights?  Majorly doubtful.  In fact, I bet the clothes and food
probably cost more than this guy paid for his ticket.

Two die aboard same BA flight
Nicholas Pyke and Veronica Cancio
Monday January 19, 2004
The Guardian

Is it me or have the airliners.net forums finally gone completely loopy?
Today's fun and games...Cathay are supposedly going to dump their
various buses/early 777s and buy a load of GE powered 777s.
I don't think one of the armchair CEOs in there ever bothers looking