Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2004

If you though RFID chips in your passport were dangerous...
the US FDA has authorized the use of RFID chips implanted under patient's
skins for purposes of identification and easy access to patient's records.
So, as you walk thorugh the airport, the orwelian customs agents may be

        Going to be their on 17 and 18 Dec
Kinda low budget, any recomendations of what to see or do.    Piper from
Abilene Texas
http://community.webtv.net/minotpiper/HELTONLARKWOODY

In 2000, 275million USD extra was spent on fuel compared to if the
passengers had stayed the same weight as they were in 1990
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3984973.stm

Last night's events in the USA have sealed the Repugblicans' fate:
HILLARY CLINTON WILL BE PRESIDENT IN 2008!!!
Get ready motherf..kers, she will f.ck your a.ses in 2008!!!
It will take her 8 YEARS (at least) to clean up the f.cking mess the Repugs

I have just been on a return trip to Italy on a 737-400 with BA.  On the
outward journey the Biz Class config was set up as the first two rows (3
economy seats converted into 2 bc seats) giving 8 seats in total.  The
economy/bc partition was behind row 4 however.

I am flying to India via Northwest Airlines. Flight will stop in Amsterdam,
Holland and then to India.
My Questions:
1. What should I be prepared for while I am in Schipol Airport in Amsterdam?

Some might say hicks cost Kerry the election, but you know what? Hicks
are preferable to New York Super-Liberal Jews. Jew York City is filled
with whiny, kvetching, Communist-Sympathizer, Marxist, police state
desiring, gun control desiring, socialist-authoritarian, individual

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/politics/campaign/02ohio.html?th
November 2, 2004
OHIO
G.O.P. in Ohio Can Challenge Voters at Polls

CO 1170, arrived on time, the FA's did not need a shoehorn to fit more
passengers on.
Interesting pre-boarding - the gate agent called for the first class fliers to
line up on the carpet to wait for him to open the plane.

  In 1976 I took part in a US Congressional Commissioned Military Study
to Improve US Air Travel Security while stationed on Strassberg Kasern
in Idar-Oberstein,W.Germany assigned to C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army
1975-76. The purpose of the Study was to Identify Security Lapses and

Playing around with Opodo, I found that Tyrolean Airways flies DH4,
DH3, and AT5 aircraft, and probably others.  I flew an SAS DH4
and found it tight but acceptable.  I flew an SAS SAAB xxxx (2000
maybe?) and felt like I was flying in a dollhouse.  Is the DH3 the

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2004/10/29/ap1620592.html
Southwest Airlines, the discount carrier that has long stuck to its policy of
seating passengers on a first-come, first-served basis, is seriously
considering assigning seats, officials said.

Betty TV is making a new television series for BBC3 called Retail
Therapy.
We are currently looking for people to be in the series, so please
read on in case you or your friends and colleagues could benefit.

Say you are flying through a hub with lots of flights to the same
destination, maybe CPH-FRA-VIE (yes, I know, why not fly
direct CPH-VIE, play along, huh?).  Suppose for some reason you
did not take the first possible flight FRA-VIE, maybe you wanted

While looking at flight options from ORD to BHM I noticed something
interesting.  UA uses the same flight number for the down and back legs.  
ORD-BHM        UA 6819 9:42am-11:12am
BHM-ORD        UA 6819 11:42am-1:44pm