Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / May 2004

.........with two spelling errors:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/05/09/bt.af.klm.airports.reut/index.html
Schipol (wrong) instead of Schiphol (right)
Basicair (wrong) instead of Basiqair (right)

I'm flying to Rome at the end of June, and have a choice of Alitalia
(Business) or Continental (Business-First).  I'm somewhat leery of
booking AZ at this point because of their financial uncertainty.  Any
sense whether their issues are likely to come to a head by next month?

By The Journal
An emotional air hostess stormed off her plane at the last minute by sliding
down the emergency chute, it has been revealed.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Newcastle Airport for four hours - and

I saw a Ryanair aircraft at Stansted last week, and on one  side it had the
words "Auf Wiedersehen Lufthansa" in letters about a foot high. Anyone know
why?

Great Source for cheap air travel tickets
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Ryanair Holdings PLC
10 May 2004
       RYANAIR OPENS £10 MILLION GLASGOW PRESTWICK MAINTENANCE FACILITY
                    UP TO 200 NEW JOBS FOR AYRSHIRE REGION

Well, looks like the beast is really going to be real... Of course, the timing
of this strangely coincides with Boeing's launch of 7E7, probably a feeble
attempt at tarnishing Boeing's 15 seconds of fame in the newscasts tonight.
Airbus To Deliver 10 To 14 A380s In 2006

All:
I was reading an article in the Washington Post, about people who see how
far they can fly for a set figure, in this case $100.
Does anyone know of any travel related search engine that will let you enter

What should I expect as a checkin time on a Saturday morning for a 7:00
flight from MHT (Manchester, NH)? I called USAir and the woman said 90
minutes before asking the day, time or airport so that must be an automatic
answer. I assume someone out there flies from MHT regularly.

I was chatting to a friend who works at Birmingham International today and
she said that the BIA executives are so taken aback by DUO's demise, they
are prepared to attract any budget airline to take its shoes, including
trying to entice Ryanair back to Elmdon.

I am not sure what the Bush administration is doing but I've been noticing
the dollar is on the decline at almost constant rate against the Euro and
many other currencies. Then again, if one thinks about it, the weak dollar
is boosting the profit for the multi-national ...

I'm travelling to Germany and will be taking a train to the Frankfort
Intl. airport for my return to the USA.  When I look up schedules I find
2 airport stations listed:
Frankfurt a.M., Ffm Flughafen Regionalbahnhof

I and a friend (he was born there when it was Koenigsberg, East
Prussia) want to visit Kaliningrad, Russian  Autonomous Region between
Poland and Lithuania.  There don't seem to be any direct flights from
the UK.  There's a nightly train from Berlin which is a 16 hour job,

Do air travel prices simply change with the seasons - ie, expensive in
summer, cheap in winter?
Specifically I want to know about Australia-UK travel.
UK winter seems to be the cheapest. But are there more expensive times