Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2004

Hi there, any tips for transiting at LAX?
Thanks
Frank

Massachusetts gays divorcing
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- Less than seven months after same-sex
couples began tying the knot in Massachusetts, the state is seeing its
first gay divorces.

Interesting commentary.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/121304A.html

Today's air travel isn't the same as it used to be. And things are getting
worse, thanks to the tyrannical TSA current made-up-as-you-go-along
policies.
For those of us who don't have private jets, our travel comfort has been

A little while ago I'd get to the arch and the guy would look at my
shoes and say something like "you might want to put your shoes on the
belt" and I'd say "it's ok - they don't trigger the metal detector"
and then I walk through and there's not a beep out of the arch and

What I will never understand is why the FAs are continuing the tactics
of the past.  A better strategy would be to hire someone who under-
stands bankruptcy and business, and have him make the case to the
bankruptcy judge that salaried personnel must share in the pain.  A

I have a economy ticket to Dubai,does this really mean you are allowed up to
32 kg ?
What are the allowances for baggage which is checked-in?
The following free baggage allowances apply on Emirates flights, for adults

Druggists refuse to give out pill
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
For a year, Julee Lacey stopped in a CVS pharmacy near her home in a
Fort Worth suburb to get refills of her birth-control pills. Then one

From ABC 7 News:
I-Team: Illegal Strip Searches at Reagan National?
Reporter: Melinda Mayo
Posted: November 24, 2004 5:55 PM EST

I hope all those religious zealots in the United States will make lots of
prayers and ask their god for forgiveness that their newly elected president
is about to commit genocide in Fallujah when it launches all its military
might on a city of 500,000 people.

Talking to my girlfriends I found out that they all do something with
their pubes.  Some go a little father than others.  For instance, I
shave my labia but leave a little patch of hair right on top.  Most do
at least a bikini wax, but a few go the whole way and shave everything

On Friday, a routine security check ran afoul...
Security officers inserted some C4 explosives in a randomly chosen piece of
luggage to test explosive detection process.
The dogs did detect the eplosives, but while the officers congratulated the

Iraq war a crime: Hawking
November 3, 2004 - 7:08AM
Britain's most famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, has condemned the
Iraq war as a "war crime" and said the US-led invasion was based on

I've a flight on Singapore airlines to Australia booked for mid Jan
and now it looks like I won't be going after all.
I'm advised that I can't change the outbound date without cancelling
the flight and incurring a £255 cancellation fee, ie, no practical way

Conservative Backlash May Have Cost Kerry Crucial Ohio
By JAKE TAPPER and JODY HASSETT
ABC News
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2004 --  When Massachusetts' highest court