Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2004

Knowledgeable NYC travelers:
It looks now like I will probably need to RON on return from LHR.
Am looking at one of the following hotels because of points/miles
considerations.  If you have personal knowledge of them, I solicit your

IP address: 171.71.79.11
Host name: mvoight-w2k02.cisco.com
Cisco must use a different system of time keeping, where 15min=24hrs
You've been posting all day long from work in various groups (like every other

hi there. i am new to this newsgroup and i was hoping someone here could
give me some info. i was referred to this ng by a friend of mine that said
it was quite useful - though i still plan on calling a travel agent when i
get some time.

Conan O'Brien apologizes to Canadians
Show had sicced Triumph on Quebecois
Conan O'Brien spent a week in Toronto to help boost the city's profile, but
things didn't go off without a hitch.

JF Mezei <jfmezei@istop.com> is up to one of his old tricks again, issuing rogue
cancels for
usenet posts he doesn't like.  Keep an eye out and monitor the control.cancel
newsgroup.

I make it a point to avoid commuter jets, and generally won't fly on
anything smaller than a 727.  I've been on a lot of DC-9s, first on TWA and
then on Northwest.  Last night, I had leg from Cincinnati to MSP on
Northwest on what my TA had assured me was a decidedly-non-commuter ...

http://www.talkabouthealthnetwork.com/group/alt.psychology/messages/66319.html
Provides a good insight on the new troll to rec.travel.air (or could it be the
same as the old- timer nomen nescio/edo/starwars  ?)
"his" domain (actually, the domain is cjb.net, he only has a host name)

Is there a way to book United award travel (either flight bookings or
mileage-based upgrades) on line?
(I'm looking at the UA web site through a slow connection, and haven't
found any such link yet.)

JF Mezei is up to one of his old tricks again, issuing rogue cancels for usenet
posts he doesn't like.  Keep an eye out and monitor the control.cancel
newsgroup.  He usually forges your name and e-mail address.  Read below on who
this deranged psycho is:

....Google as well as the vast majority of ISPs don't honor cancels (for
exactly the kind of deranged kooks like you who do rogue cancels) so number one,
you're wasting your time, and number two, there will be a permanent record of
all of this, and it ain't gonna look good for you.  ...

Ryanair has confirmed it is taking "no-frills" flying a stage further by
ordering a fleet of planes without reclining seats or window blinds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3489761.stm

Privacy fears over plane cameras from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3489304.stm
"Villagers are objecting to planes flying into Gatwick which film the
ground below, claiming the underside cameras invade their privacy.

I will have to be making numerous personal trips to the Fresno area
during the next several months.
Most of the time I will make the 12 hour drive from the Portland, Ore.
area (won't like it but will make it...).  Some of those trips however

Well, Google Groups says there has been no action, anywhere, by
bmattock@ in over a month. Is our man MIA? Cast into a TSA oubliette in
coldest Kalispell? Hard to imagine that anyone as prolific as The Bill
might have writer's block. Did somebody piss him off so badly that he's

Gay marriages, marrying your dog, reading on the john... can we talk
about the f**king airline industry here please and you numbnuts take
this sh.t elsewhere? Jeez get out of our group already.