Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2004

I haven't flown in or out from the US in a long time and reading this group
I get a feeling that the security checks at airports in the US can take some
time. I will return to Oslo from Chicago on Sunday the 14th of March. My
plane is scheduled to leave at 10:05 PM. If I arrive two ...

Why was the shorter than usual 747SP designed? Surely if you want a 747, you
may as well have a full-size one?
Are they still manyfatured? If not, when did they stop?
cgh1

I've done a good bit of international traveling but it has been a while and
I've never been to Great Britain.
We will be Flying in to Heathrow in March and returning a week later. My
first question is, what is the best place to exchange currency both coming

Hi is a boeing 744    same as a jumbo   regards   J

On the way from Tampa to Boston last night the pilot announced that the jet
stream was blowing at 219 mph ( I guess he meant knots ?) we were at 39,000
feet, apparently he had to point the plane 24 degrees left of the direction
we wanted to go, and our ground speed reached 592 mph.

Can anyone point me to some online source which explains this, I noticed today
that my flight from Berlin to Humberside, via Amsterdam that when I got to
Humberside I noticed my luggage had been marked.
The yellow ticket read "Bundesgrenzscutz - BGSI - Flughafen Berlin-Tegal,

Coudl anyone who has recently flown NZ from AKL to LAX on the 744 provide some
insight of the service schedule ?
How much of the flight is "light out" for sleep ? How many hot meals ? Are
folks woken up 2 hours prior to landing, or more ?

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2004/02/24/wfly24.xml
Airlines offer chance to surf the net at 40,000ft
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
(Filed: 24/02/2004)

I will be in London for the first time in late June and would like some
information about the following:
How long does it take to get from Terminal 1 (British Air BA) to Terminal 3
(Air New Zeland)?  I will be flying in on BA and need to go to ANZ and catch an

What's the best (and cheapest) way of parking at Heathrow for 5
nights.
From March 26th.
Thanks

Has anyone found a way to contact this airline by email, or any way of
speaking with them from mainland China?  Their website publishes two
(or three) toll-free numbers to be used in China, but none of them
work.  (I tried them thousands of times.)  They also give a number at

Same-sex marriage license rush slows down
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) --San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
shut off the same-sex marriage license pipeline over the weekend, but
will reopen the city clerk's office Monday for business as usual --

Take your kids to the movie
By Israel Shamir
The film of Mel Gibson, The Passion, grows into an important, maybe
the important event of the year. Even before screening, it caused

I purchased non-refundable roundtrip e-tickets through Orbitz back in 12/'03
but had to cancel. At the time of cancelling I was told to call them
(Orbitz) back when I was ready to reschedule. Now when I try to reschedule
the flight Orbitz says to call Delta & Delta says to call ...

Listen, I knew that something would be amiss at the National Committee
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the U.S. from the get-go when sleazeball
Henry Kissinger (accused of planning the assassinations of others) was
chosen to head up the committee. Then my projection was confirmed when