Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2004

Is there a website that ranks airlines by number of overbooked flights?

visa required? photo/fingerprinting?
thanks.

I may have to fly to the Far East and being 6ft 1", I often get
uncomfortable on flights. However I see that BA are offering flights in
World Traveller Plus to Hong Kong for just over £700 and I'm wondering if
the apparent 20% extra room is that noticeable?

I have read in the newspapers that some airlines in Europe have added
a fuel surcharge even for tickets sold some time ago.
We are to fly from Europe to Canada at the end of the month and would
like to know if Air Canada has done something similar.

Owing to increasing passenger numbers on their services from Manchester and
Birmingham, BA Citiexpress are looking at increasing aircraft size on the
busiest routes, e.g. MAN/BHX - CDG, BHX - BCN, MAN - MAD/FCO/VCE/FRA/DUS.
They are believed to be looking at A319s to replace the ...

When you're in bankruptcy, trying to CUT costs, there are certain things you
just don't do!  Thank God the Federal loan folks came to their senses and
realized things were lame.
First.  Of all the lame things to do, the worst has to be spending millions of

Taken in the cockpit of a Siberia Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 by a friend of
mine.
http://www.maxho.com/images/grasshopper.jpg
HECTOP

I need to locate some difinative clarification regarding the laws
(rules) which allow a non-EU national to travel between Ireland and
the UK. Ideally I need to know if I leave my current vacation
destination of Ireland and travel for a short trip (weekend or so)to

source ananova
Gatwick airport is set to be the next battleground for no-frills airlines, with
plans by Ryanair and bmibaby to challenge easyJet's dominance.
Ryanair has so far restricted operations at London's second biggest airport due

Flew on easyJet from CPH - NCL yesterday and the flight attendant giving the
announcements was not the usual sort who goes through the same old boring
routine. He had Glasgow accent broader than Rab C. Nesbitt and every time he
made an announcement he had the entire place in fits of ...

Trying to plan a trip to Hawaii from Sacramento (Maui, Kauai or Big
Island...doesn't really matter) some time in August for 4 people.  We have
several 100,000 miles on both UA and AA so we were hoping to go first class,
but getting seats isn't looking good.  United says they might ...

I only posted one note.  I don't know why it came up so many times.
Is there any way I can get them all off?  I only wanted to post one
time.
What in the world happened?  Now I know why people are irritated at

It looks likely that there will be announcement shortly by All Nippon
Airways that it will commence a three times a week Dublin - Manchester -
Tokyo service from November 2004.
cgh1

I just found a new international travel Web site called Travelconsumer.com http://www.travelconsumer.com.  Every country in the world, all the states in the U.S., and most major cities are included.  They also have articles on travel tips, destinations, and more.  Their travel ...