Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / April 2004

I'm arriving to Rome on May 1st and need to take a train to Florence.
Can I directly catch a train from the airport to Florence or do I need
to take the train to Termini and find the Florence train from there?
Thanks.

According to AvWeek this week, Delta Airlines is decreasing available
seat pitch on it's 767-300ER aircraft to add additional rows in coach.
This is their response to competition from JetBlue and a similar move
perviously announced by American for AA 757s and A300s...

In my unending search for ways to keep myself amused on long-haul
transoceanic flights, I'm going to try bring movies with me to play on my
computer, a Sony Vaio notebook.
WinDVD works extremely well on my laptop -- video quality is excellent (far

Experts tell us we all came from Africa.
So we were all niggers once.

How do you pack your GPS receivers on the plane?
Do you take it in a carry-on bag or do you put it in your checked luggage?
I've been putting it in my checked luggage (so's not to freak out the TSA
screeners) but now I'm concerned about theft by the TSA searchers so I'm

I booked a flight from Washington (DCA) to New York (LGA) on United Airlines
Flight#2986 which is operated by US Airways.  At LGA, there is a separate
terminal for US Airways versus United, which is at the main terminal.  Where
will my flight land?  Shall I tell my sister to pick me ...

Thank you thank you THANK YOU for exposing Michael Voight and telling the truth
about him.  Those of us who work with him were laughing our heads off when we
read what you posted, it was so DEAD ON!  You got it completely right about him.
At work NOONE can stand him, they all HATE ...

Dear _____ ,
Thank you for your letter concerning our employee Michael Voight.
We are aware of the situation and have received numerous complaints about his
usenet posts from work.

Face it mrtravelfuck, you lost in the UK Journalist Visa thread because everyone
saw you for the a.shole that you are.  No humanity, no compassion, just an
attention-seeking whore troll out to flood the thread and the newsgroup with
troll posts to outnumber and outspeak everyone ...

source www.telegraph.co.uk
By Nick Britten
(Filed: 22/04/2004)
Britain's newest budget airline has been ordered to close its only terminal less

Afternoon all,
I have just returned on a trip HUY-AMS-ARN on KL and ARN-SFT-ARN on SK.
What has happened to the checking of people's identities??
During 9th April HUY-AMS-ARN-SFT, I showed my passport at check-in at HUY,

Hope someone can help me.  I need a flight from London to Lisbon in July at
a reasonable cost.  Having looked at various websites it seems a one-way
flight is stupidly expensive and I could get a return with BA for £135.
There is no way that I will be using the "return" part of my ...

Interesting twist.
Airbus has gotten a contract from Australian airforce for refueling tankers.
Whilst Boeing in the past used work for military to develop commercial
aircraft, this time around, Airbus is doing the opposite: It will be building

I just had a chance to ride BART from SFO for the first time. I know
that a lot of taxpayers are chapped at the billion dollars (?) spent
on it, but as a traveler it was SOOOO NICE to be able to hop on a
train just a few minutes after leaving the terminal and getting

The checks - known as the Advanced Passenger Information System - will
be mandatory from this summer, adding crucial extra minutes to the
check-in process, said Travel Trade Gazette magazine.
The head of regulation at holiday firm First Choice, one of Britain's