Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2004

 [For Miguel, RJ Carpenter, and other IAD fans :-) ]
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3cb65d50-4ae4-11d9-a0ca-00000e2511c8.html
_The Financial Times_
Jurek Martin: Letter to America

To encourage travelers to book award seats online they are now imposing a $5
charge to ticket award seats using a reservation agent.This is fine, however
when trying to book an award on partner Cathay Pacific those awards are not
bookable online.A reservation agent must be used and ...

Muslim academic resigns from US university
Polly Curtis, education correspondent
Friday December 17, 2004
Tariq Ramadan, the leading Muslim academic, has resigned his

To encourage travelers to book award seats online they are now imposing a $5
charge to ticket award seats using a reservation agent.This is fine, however
when trying to book an award on partner Cathay Pacific those awards are not
bookable online.A reservation agent must be used and ...

According to the BBC:
Airbus A380 is $2bn over budget
The Airbus A380 superjumbo project is running 1.45bn euros (£1bn;
$1.9bn) over budget, the company's majority owner EADS has admitted.

Is it possible to determine if a person has flown on a commerical plane
within the past three years? Will the major airilines release this
infomration?
Thanks,

As a general rule, what are the cheapest days to travel?
TIA
J

Here are mode details, from Airbus' web site  (fluff edited out):
A350 RECEIVES “AUTHORISATION TO OFFER” (ATO)
DECEMBER  10,  2004
Airbus has received approval from its shareholders, EADS and BAE Systems to

    [ Unusual from France; expected from TSA. -Ed. ]
  Newark Airport Screeners Lose Fake Bomb
  Dec 15, 1:33 PM (ET)
  By WAYNE PARRY

My wife and I each have 10,000 miles on British Airways.  Can these
miles be sold to others or combined.  What are the worth.

OK, so I've just got back (yesterday) from a quick trip to Paris:
08DEC  AF083  SFO-CDG  Business Class  A340-300
12DEC  NW049  CDG-DTW  BusinessFirst   A330-300
12DEC  NW347  DTW-SFO  First Class     A320-200

Flying tomorrow from Newark to Turku, Finland via Copenhagen on
Scandinavian Airlines. (If you're on the same flight, come
and say hi ;))
Anybody know if I have to take my luggage and clear customs

Well, ever since I saw Transportation Secretary Norman Minetta say, "no
profiling," I have realized what a helluva dilemma-paradox-mess he has to deal
with
Therefore, it is very easy if not glib for an internet posting jerk (me) to

(SEATAC = Seattle Tacoma International airport).  What's the likely
screening standing-in-line time this Monday 20 Dec for a 7 am flight?
Travel crunch in full force?  As bad as turkey day was at its worst?  2 hrs?
3 hrs?

Boeing, hungry to reach its target of selling 200 7E7s by year's end, has
agreed to sell 148 7E7 aircraft to Air Qaeda Airlines, a new low cost cargo
carrier funded by an arab conglomerate with headquarters somewhere in Afghanistan.
A Boeing spokesperson said that the order was just ...