Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / April 2004

Want to go to LA on May 1 - cant get a direct flight for less than £420 - if
I go April 30 its nearer £300 (cant really do April 30).  My question is
that all flights for May seem to be over £400 - if I wait until later this
month will cheaper seats become available? Seems like a ...

I purchased round trip tickets last March 20th.  I went through Orbitz and was
only offered the paper ticket option.   They were to be here by now but weren't
so I called Orbitz.  I was informed Orbitz had mailed them, and could not
reissue or remail and so I need to repurchased ...

I have a question for those who fly a lot.  
I've never been much of a flyer, and yet the last 8 months have seen
me on 5 round trips, with regular travel now being my life.  I find
that when I get close to a scheduled trip, I start to feel ill, when I

Word on usenet is that rec.travel.europe has the most obnoxious, arrogant
posters of any group.  Do you agree?
Which other groups are populated with anally retentive know-it-alls?

I had almost forgotten about an incident on a recent Emirates flight from
DXB-LGW. A lady boarded the plane and took the seat across the aisle from me
with here infant in FC. After several minutes of exchange with an airline
ground agent, she was downgraded to BC apparently because ...

On wednesday, shareholders of the French side of the Eurotunnel corporation
voted to oust the board of the company.
The company has serious debt problems and has not met the predicted volumes of
customers necessary to pay back the debt.

    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/06/1081222466768.html
Low-cost Qantas bounds into Asia
By James Chessell
Sydney

As if it couldn't get any worse, now the TSA wanna be "though police".
Your "attitude" can get you fined:
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040220/5944418s.htm
    A year ago, the TSA quietly began assessing fines against airline

A large group of us will be returning to London from Copenhagen (Malmo) on
Ryanair after our cruise ends.
Does Ryanair enforce their baggage limits?  (15kg, ?6 per extra kg)
And, while we're at it...any idea how wide their seats are?

Is Swiss International a member of OW?
ps

On a recent US airways flight from SFO to Las Vegas I was amazed to see a
girl knitting  all the way there, including while we landed, in view of the
fact that my nail clippers and nail file are banned as being dangerous
weapons, I am amazed that steel knitting needles are allowed, ...

In view of the postings recently concerning this operator I thought that the
group would be interested in the Press Release issued a few days ago by
AV8Air.
viz:

accar ghana to hong kong air line ticket

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