Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2004

For those people fed up with the trolls and off-topic posts here,
misc.transport.air-industry is back up and running.  A lot fewer posts, but
at least they're on topic.

The New York Times
December 27, 2004
Airlines' Woes May Be Worse in Coming Year
By MICHELINE MAYNARD

I had the misfortune last weekend to travel on one of those new Ryanair
planes with the non-reclining seats, and no-seat back pockets.
It was a real pain in the neck ! Especially when trying to have a nap.
Also they handed out those plastic coated 'menus', and, with no seat back

I've just booked a tour including flights from
London Heathrow LHR term 3 to Honolulu term M
Using United Airlines flight 935 which stops at Los Angeles LAX term 6 on
route for 4 hours before departing from LAX term 7.

As to not disturb a pee-pee contest in another thread, I thought I'd share
what I've found on the internet regarding where the A380 production is.
A few different (unofficial) places in the internet give the following
sequence.  

    http://www.airbus.com/dynamic/media/press_releases.asp#1650
  AIR EUROPA, THE FIRST AIRLINE TO COMMIT TO THE A350
  DECEMBER  21,  2004
  Air Europa of Spain is the first airline to commit to the A350-800,

When an American friend told me people in the US only have two weeks
of paid leave PER YEAR I could scarcely believe it.  He said yeah but
we get paid public holidays.
In the UK we get 4 to 5 weeks paid leave plus public holidays .  Other

Knives top list of contraband seized at airports
Small knives left in travelers' pockets are still among the most common
contraband at airport security gates, but screeners say they continue
to see everything from a large snake to a gun-packing granny.

Budget hostel located in heart of Hong Kong's shopping zone. Single room
US$22.69 night, Double bed room (with private washroom) US$33.36/night. Only
3
minutes walk from Mongkok MTR station. Please visit

Has anyone managerd to find some web page with the A350,s specs on the Airbus
web site ?
I find it odd that they launched it, but the wbe site doesn't seem to show it
in any of its families.

We will traveling this coming February on Northwest through MSP. Just
wondering if 1 hour and 5 minutes is a long enough connecting time at
MSP. Seems kind of weird that we had a close to a 5 layover going, but
coming home we have such a short one.

JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca> trolled:

I will have an elderly relative making a connection in JFK. He will need to go
from one terminal to another. He speaks primarily Russian. Is there a service
that will escort passengers from one terminal to another at JFK? Preferably one
that has Russian speakers. One that charges a ...

From VLC into the city centre you can:-
1 Take a taxi. It costs about 10 Euros plus Airport Surcharge
of about 2.50 Euros.
2 Take the Metrobus. It costs 95 Eurocents and takes about 45 minutes