Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2005

Recently while traveling on Air Canada, using my radioshack
thermometer/hygrometer, on all Air Canada planes in economy, I measured 24C
and 30% rh which is a quite high humidity level.  I'm interested to know
what everyone else has measured while traveling.

Comair Downed By Computer Counting Limit
The computer failure that grounded an airline's entire fleet over the
Christmas weekend and stranded thousands of travelers was due to creaky
software that couldn't count higher than 32,768.

I needed to book a seat AMS-LON today, talking to KLM at about 0930
this morning they said there were just a total of 3 seats left today,
all flights, both classes, and both LHR and LCY. Checking the other 2
full service carriers, both BA and BD had availability on all their

 In 2004, I tried five months ahead of time to get award travel from
ONT to San Antonio, TX, the weekend of Nov. 19, but there was none.
This year, I tried over ten months ahead of time for the same
conference, this time from ONT to Philadelphia, the same equivalent

Is there a low cost airlines fare finder that does all the searching for
you? It takes ages having to search Air Berlin/easyJet/Ryanair/FlyBe/Jet
etc.!
cgh1

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JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca> wrote in news article <41F3373D.60DA3F5C@noaol.com>:

I am relocating to the UK and want to buy a round trip ticket, with the
return date a day or 2 shy of a year. I spoke with someone at American
Airlines and they said this is doable. My problem is, when I do an internet
search for such a ticket, I get an "out of date range" kind ...

How long will it be before Boeing stops 747 production, either with a proper
farewell to the greatest passenger plane of the last 30 years, or quietly. The
latter is perhaps more likely given the inevitable references the press would
make to 747's successor taking over the crown..

I'll be visiting New York next July, and I was wondering what's the cheapest
way of making a short hop to Washington (like leaving in the morning and
returning in the evening). Is something like that even possible, or should I
better remain in New York because of the lengthy ...

Well, well, well ... right on cue ... HE'S BAAAACK!!!
What did I tell yas all.
Bushie and Cheney and Rumsfeld want Americans to be sh.tting their
pants right before the election so they will vote for them.  Four days

I'm interested to know if anyone has any info for EASYJET starting in
MANCHESTER AIRPORT.
I believe they starting in the summer, great to hear if anyone knows
something.

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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

"Tsunami-struck Thailand has been told by the European Commission that
it must buy six A380 Airbus aircraft if it wants to escape the tariffs
against its fishing industry," reports the Scotsman:  
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=591&id=66782005