Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2004

I read the alarmist posting made not long ago about two women who were
stopped from boarding a flight at SFO.  Well today I found another
article about this - the two women WERE allowed to fly that day -
after being questioned for a brief amount of time:

Federal aviation officials Tuesday announced plans to require airplane
manufacturers Boeing and Airbus to retrofit 3,800 aircraft with onboard
systems to prevent fuel tank explosions such as the one thought to have
downed a TWA jet in 1996.

    [ I'm surpised this was missed. But it's coming into major play
now. -Ed. ]
Group will hone criteria for judging 16 proposals
By Jeff Ristine

My sister will be flying into ORD in March (on a tourist visa) and we'd like to
know if she should expect to be fingerprinted and whether this results in any
long delays. Also, do you know where we can find a recent list of the European
countries whose citizens are exempt?

From BBCi:
Ryanair 'to cut frills further'
Ryanair is ordering planes without reclining seats, says a report
Ryanair is taking the "no-frills" concept a stage further - by

M4 tunnel needed for third runway
Plans for a third Heathrow runway have been hit by a report which says part
of the M4 will have to be put into a tunnel to meet pollution targets.
Environmentalists say the Whitehall study signals the end of the

Talking of easyJet. They are getting in on the very first day with
flights to some of the new EU members, with services to Budapest and
Ljubljana starting on 1 may.
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Last night, coming home from SNA, I watched as TSA (_not_ the ticket rep
taking boarding passes) pulled people at random from the line as we boarded.
I thought all airports had stopped this stupidity.

Hi everyone, I have been looking around on the web to see if i can find any
cheap, 1 (or maybe 2) stop
way to get from Manchester/Liverpool airport to Lahore (Pakistan)...
Currently I'm making a list of the airlines/origin airports of all flights

(The New York Times) - The jetliner that helped shrink the globe, the Boeing
747, was 35 years old on February 9th.  The plane was first flown in 1969
and carried its first commercial passengers in 1970.  Since then, the Boeing
Co. said it had delivered 1,341 of the super-jumbo ...

The inevitable finally happened, though I had mis-predicted that
it would happened before the end of 2003.
My streak of having 100% complimentary Elite Upgrades from coach
to First on Continental domestic flights (since the beginning of

I will be in Hong Kong over a weekend in early March and have a few
questions:
1. What are some nice places to see in the New Territories that I
could do as a 6 hour return trip from Central/Tsim Sha Tsui?

Should you go abroad (99.999% of Americans may now stop reading, since
this has a much to do with you as a King Faysals sirosis), you will no
doubt encounter the Any place airport bookshop best seller shelf. Non
fiction is usually composed entirely of demented management theory

Has only one heard of a new livery for UAL? I did not think that their
current Livery was all the old?
M. Graham

I am off to England/Portugal in the summer and was wondering if anyone could
recommend an insurance program that will cover the cost of my ticket in case of
cancellation, and medical insurance.
Thanks in advance