Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2004

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3562026.stm
       "British Airways passengers face August bank holiday chaos after
       3,000 check-in staff in the GMB union voted to strike over a
       long-running pay dispute."

Blimey is this tough, first you go through a boarding pass check, then
passport control, then a first scan of hand luggage and a walk under the
arch, then just before the gates another scan of baggage and a full 'anal
probe' type thing with a wand and a full pat down search. Must be ...

Do Continental Airlines have marshalls on all flights, national as well as
international?
Zoe

For the last couple of days I have seen a low flying small/medium
sized two engined passenger jet doing a number of low level flights
over Birmingham city centre.  The flight path appears consistent with
a take off from BHX but is cetainly much lower than would be expected

Beautiful, secluded 5-BR House, overlooking the ocean in some of the
most beautiful land in North America.
This beautiful old rehabilitated farmhouse is available for rent
August 21 - September 4. The house has 5 bedrooms and one bathroom, a

Recently my mom visited & had 1st class round trip tickets from CLE to ITO
which were purchased thru Orbitz. The cost was ~$2500. On the return flight
the lady sitting next to her said she visits her daughter every year & paid
~$1300 for 1st class RT tickets this trip, she showed my ...

Have you ever tried to carry a barber's electric clipper in a carryon on
a flight in the USA, and if so, what did TSA say about it?  Thanks.

Does anyone think a lot (if not all) of this show is fake? They just had a
segment where four guys were walking around an airport searching for Eminem.
There was a whole "backstory" beforehand where one of the guys said they got a
word on the internet from some "hackers" that Eminem ...

To All:
I have a chance to fly first class this month for a trip to San Diego
from Philadelphia. The airline we plan to use is still up in the air.
I was wondering if anyone could let me know which domestic airline

I was looking at the FAA's site for this resource and could not find
it. How can I get the flight data that all these Flight Track site use
to display inflight location?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is information I got from a newsgroup:
You could take the N or W to Astoria Blvd or the E or F to Jackson
Heights and ride through city streets to LGA if you wanted to,
although it might be kind of exciting.  It'd probably be easier to get

  I am currently in Greece covering the Olympics for my Australian E-zine
and We discovered that track and field, and some of the football events
will be taking place in Iraklion on the isle of crete. I am scheduled to
travel to California and Oregon to visit relatives I have there ...

Would anyone reccommend EasyJet?.
Cheers
NUFC_1892

Group:
Is there an easy way to find out which airlines fly between Airport#1 and
Airport #2?
Cheers

A report to be published shortly by Manchester Airport plc will outline that
they are fast running out of space to deal with the increase of aircraft
movements. They are now using a consultancy company to look at ways of
expanding the terminals to accommodate another 20 gates.