Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / September 2004

Just got back from making connections from Gatwick to Pisa via British
Air.
Spent only one night at Gatwick Hilton on each leg since I find London
as pleasant as Newark NJ and that might be an insult to Newark.

I saw the earlier post about a delayed flight causing woes
and it brought back memories.
For the 2002 December Holidays, my wife, son, and I bought
three tickets on Delta.  We asked friends for a ride to the

Listening to audio channel 9 on United, at higher altitudes and during
cruise I hear ATC say things like "What's your mach?"  and "Maintain
mach 77" and at lower altitudes and during approaches "slow to 180" or
"maintain 250 for spacing".

I had bought a winter coat during my trip but thanks to the thieves at
TSA, I am now out of $350! Now I can thanks my useless and ineffective
government for doing a great job of capitalizing on terrorism at the
expense of its citizens. May the real terrorists are those scums in

http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/08/1093895994.html
Halogen lights in the cargo hold are too hot and caused a fire last year
during a flight (ignited a bag). Fire supression worked that time.
FAA is issuing a request to change all cargo halogen lights to normal