Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2004

Could someone tell me is southwest airline any good? Please e mail let
me know. Thank you
Susanlussier@webtv.net

Had an interesting experience yesterday flying from DEN to ORD.  Due to
weather at ORD, we were put into a hold pattern over Kansas City for about
40 minutes.  At that time, the captain turned on Channel 9 so we could
listen in.  We were United 942 but our call sign to ATC was ...

I saw a UA add recently, and was waiting for others to followup.
I got a CO email yesterday, and an AA one today.
With restrictions, 3 trips between now and June 15 earn a domestic
ticket. If you fly more than 10000 miles, you can get triple miles

I have heard that the A300-600R in AA's fleet have a lower dipatch
reliability than their fleet of Boeings (757,767,737,777) and MD-80's.
I was also told that the Fokkers were not very reliable either. The
727 fleet was more reliable than the Fokkers.

I will be in London for the first time and am making plans to fly to
Switzerland in June.  I have choices to fly out of Luton or Heathrow.
Can anyone tell me how large Luton is vs Heathrow.  Is it very small
with all terminals close together or is it larger like Heathrow. As a

I am booked on a early flight next week to JFK, I think the flight
leaves around 8am, I have booked a seat in world traveller plus I
think it is 31.
I heard some rumour on this group a while ago that this seat on a 777

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/3534245.stm
Col.

    http://www.sacbee.com/content/travel/story/8378509p-9308270c.html
Sac to N.Y. nonstop via JetBlue
By Clint Swett -- Bee Staff Writer - (Published March 1, 2004)
NEW YORK - Though it's nearly midnight, chuckles ripple through the

The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales
A NUMBER of transcontinental airlines have identified Cardiff International
Airport as possible new route target.
The TBI-owned airport at Rhoose, which last year handled nearly two million

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Recently at SJU I saw an IB A340-600 arrive from Madrid that left all
four engines running during the 2 hours that it was at the gate before
continuing to Santo Domingo.  After all the passengers got off the
entire crew, both cabin AND cockpit crew got off and went to the

Where are the alleged deals supposed to be found??

Does anyone have an educated guess as to airfares (up - down)  in the
Mid-Atlantic to New Orleans market in May?  Thanks

Later this year am doing LGW-BCN with EZY.  This will be my first time with
EZY and was wondering if someone could explain their policy at check-in of
not assigning seats works, in terms of deciding (at the gate) who gets on
the plane first.

specifically Los Angeles to Tampa for spring break, on an extremely low budget,
e-mail direct, thanks