Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / May 2004

I thought I'd give an update on my experiences as a tall person flying
easyjet.
I'm 6'6", and I flew for the first time in years when I went to visit
my sister in Switzerland last week. I posted here at the end of

Any first-hand experience with a decent (low cost but safe) place to park at
LGA?
A parking garage will be fine and I plan on leaving it for about 3 days.
I assume the parking *in* LGA will be the most expensive.

According to my 'spy' at the route development team at Manchester Airport
plc, Air New Zealand are to start a Manchester - Los Angeles - Auckland
serve, twice a week from 1st February 2005. Good news for antipodean
travellers and west coast USA fans alike!

am confused whether Air France Flights from mulhouse/Basel are domestic or
international. as this is a common airport for swiss as well as France. So
if any of you have travelled on air france between Basel/Mulhouse and
Paris could you let me know if there is any custom or ...

AH! you are in luck..i am a former airline employee! Here's some tips:
1. Call the airline you booked with. Tell them due to medical problems
i.e. leg trouble...request a seat on the bulkhead right behind business
class. This will give you more room AND you will be able to board ...

source www.thesun.co.uk
By KATHRYN LISTER,
NEIL SYSON and
OLIVER HARVEY

A friend of mine tried to get seats assigned on a BA flight from LGW to
Antigua. The group of 12 she is travelling with include small children who
obviously tend to be disruptive during a long flight. Out of consideration
for other passengers she wants to sit them behind the adults ...

I was wondering if anybody knows of any cheap companies for shipping baggage
to Australia from the uk??
Thanks in advance

I'm transiting through STN next week for the first time in years (think I
haven't been there since 1997!).
Things will doubtless have changed and the BAA website is a little light on
terminal maps, so if those who are familiar with STN could advise on the

About rogue Cisco employee and netkook/troll/usenet flooder
Michael Voight, alias "mrtravel", "mrtravelkay", etc.
"mrtavelkay" is the latest usenet handle of a brainless troll whose real name is
Michael Voight, e-mail <mvoight@cisco.com>.

Ah well I see that some air travelers are experts even though they have
NEVER worked for an airline..
Lying to an airline....HA I guess NO ONE here has EVER lied to an
airline. Oh I didn't know I could carry flammables on the

BlankRecently had a trip on AA that as one leg went from Denver to Heathrow
on BA. Frequent flier miles were refused by AA saying something to the
effect that BA has specifically excluded transatlantic flights from FF
rewards.

Does anybody have information about the Irish airline that only began flying
last week and suspended operations today, stranding passengers abroad?
Mike

I have four domestic tickets booked using my FF miles.  Now I need to
change the date of the return trip.  I was wondering what the rules
might be for that change?  When I booked the flight I was told by the
airline rep award tickets can be changed without penality.  But the

I'm trying to find an airline that has cheap domestic flights in the
US , ( Miami – Chicago ) almost like an easyjet ,ryan air & co does in
Europe / uk , is there any airlines like this that exist and if so who
are they ?