Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2004

Are the prices listed the actual prices you pay
or is this site's membership fees just a scam?
I don't mind paying for a valuable service. However,
I've been taken to the cleaners more than once with

59-Year-Old Set to Give Birth to Twins
     Thu Nov 11,11:05 PM ET
By ELLIOTT MINOR, Associated Press Writer
SYLVESTER, Ga. - A 59-year-old great-grandmother is pregnant with twins and

In the interest of starting a thread that is actually on topic for RTA;
what do RTAers think each airport is the best at, shopping-wise?
For me:
- Schiphol: cheese

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/10/arafat.obit/index.html
Palestinian leader Arafat dies at 75
PARIS, France (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat,
75, the leader who passionately sought a homeland for his people but

Its been a few years since I flew out of Manchester and I was wondering if
anyone could vouoch for the parking there (long stay)?
I have got a price for the on-airport Preemier Parking which I am happy with
but wondered if anyone had any experience or better suggestions.  I would

I am new to NWA. In attempting to select my seats on the Detroit <->
Tokyo flights, I have come across some rather odd behavior.
At first about 40% of the coach seats were showing as "available but
only to permium mebers", which means not me! (On the map, the boxes

Gays fear being blamed for Kerry loss
By NOREEN O'DONNELL
THE JOURNAL NEWS
In the finger-pointing over the Democrats' defeat last week, gay

Ashcroft, Evans Resign From Bush Cabinet
By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft, a favorite of
conservatives, and Commerce Secretary Don Evans, one of President

What is a travel agent's legal liability for a passenger's expenses that
are due completely to mistakes made by the agent in issuing a ticket?
Recently, in two separate instances, involving two different travel
agents, I paid for unrestricted, round trip tickets on a foreign

An extract from Easyjet's name changes policy.
"Names of passengers may be changed on payment of a "name change" fee (see
tables below) per passenger, per one-way flight up to one hour before the
scheduled time of departure of that flight. In addition, if there is a

In his thirties, good looking, trim body, never been married.  He's
got that asexual look that closet gays get when they are trying
desperately to hide their sodomous inclinations.
But he's been cuddling very cozily with Ashton Kutcher on the Kerry

Florida hurricane victims still wait for housing
PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida (AP) -- Nearly three months after Hurricane
Charley devastated parts of southwestern Florida, hundreds of people
displaced by the storm still have not received temporary housing.

Gay-nups ban in cards, sez Rove
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Monday, November 8th, 2004

Whilst airlines battle it out for our custom, what of our airport operators and
their
concessionaires?
No such competitive restraints for them.

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