Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / October 2004

I'm just back from a weekend in Lisbon (great city), but it was marred
by my sister missing her Friday afternoon LHR-LIS flight (delayed
DUB-LHR bmi flight) which resulted in her being rescheduled on a
LGW-LIS flight the next morning for a fairly reasonable 44 gbp fee

What are the business class seats on Lufthansa's 744 with the most
legroom?  What about the four seats in row 9: do they have a bulk-
head in front or nothing?  The online seatmap is not definitive.
Pete

Has anyone found Istanbul a cheap place to buy tickets to other
destinations, particularly Athens? My wife and I are looking to get a
connecting flight between the two cites and thought that Istanbul
might be a cheaper option to buying the tickets than from here in the

Does anyone know the difference (in legal terms) between a rescheduled
flight and a delayed flight? For example, if passengers were entitled
to some sort of compensation if the flight was delayed by x number of
hours, would this entitlement be lost if the flight was rescheduled

What is the best (and cheapest) way to fly to get to Gilbraltar from
Jacksonville, Florida?
Thanks,
Jed

CNN reported yesterday that the TSA is considering the addition of
open hand searches to screening due to the bombings of two planes in
Russia.  I can only imagine that this means that screeners will run their
open palms across your body.  I would rather be searched by that

Is anyone else paying attention to lies that both Bliar and Bush
spewed as reasons to invade Iraq?
They have the gaul to blame each other's intelligence service.  It
couldn't be more clear at this point that both the USA and the UK had

Here we have it.  Proof positive that Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991
because of a loan gone bad.  And Kuwait still wants their money from
Iraq - and they'll get it even when Bush and Blair are hoping everyone
else forgives their loans to Iraq.

I am getting a bit confused with which tickets are actually upgradeable
(following a rather drunken conversation on Sat night).
I want to go from London to either SFO or LAX in World Traveller Plus so I
can upgrade to ClubWorld. Is it cheaper at BA's website, high street travel

I'm looking for an audio adaptor for my noise reduction headphones.
I found these
http://www.headphone.com/layout.php?topicID=3&subTopicID=31&productID=0060080000
the problem is not the cost $10. U.S. but the shipping which is $7.

Is it simply to stick it to the business traveler?
Matt

Sometime last year while trawling googles archives, i happened across
a search engine that allowed you to merely specify a date of travel
and a departure airport and it wouldnt tell you all the places you
could go to.

Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can book a TU flight
(instead of Boeing or Airbus) when I fly from Beijing to Chengdu and
back in December 2004?
Thanks

I'm going on a cruise the first week in December.  I've kept waiting
for tickets to go down since I booked my cruise in August.  Now I'm
confused.  Should I book now and go for a rate that is higher than I
wanted or should I wait closer to the time of the cruise?  I'm not

Hi there everyone.
id like to start off by thanking everyone for the amazing info on what to do
in order to finish my last trip to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. it
was tons of fun.