Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2005

Travelling from Heathrow to Vancouver with Air Canada
Wheres the best place to grab my cheap ciggies and spirit. Either on the
plane or at Heathrow

Continental and Delta will enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  UA will have
new management forced upon them by the bankruptcy judge and UA's
creditors.  Delta and UA will use bankruptcy to convert their entire
domestic service to their respective discount relatives, Song and Ted,

U.S. knew agent going to airport
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says the
intelligence agent shot dead by the U.S. military told them he would
be escorting a newly released hostage to the airport -- contrary to

The post about the wide fliers, brought out how people find fat people
repulsive.  It got me thinking about some people I've met/encountered which
I find repulsive and wonder if these people are frugal or just plain lazy.
How about those people that wear dentures, but don't brush ...

Are Virgin still the only airline flying direct?  We are considering another
vist, but have had a gutfull of connections!
Many thanks,
Matt.

German police stop Delta pilot on alcohol suspicion
Thu Mar 3, 2005
FRANKFURT, March 3 (Reuters) - German police detained a Delta Air
Lines pilot suspected of being drunk at Frankfurt airport just before

Everyone I've ever asked about Aer Lingus has had an awful story to tell.
This really surprised me.  I'm planning a trip to Ireland and was thinking
of taking Aer Lingus from New York but now I'm rethinking that.  Too many
stories about terrible service on board, terrible service ...

My daughter has fallen out with her boyfriend so we decided we would take
somone else out from Birmingham to Malaga instead. When I rang Flybe (part
of Walker Aviation) I was told the charge to change the name was £50 ( £25
each way ) plus if the flight had gone up in price we ...

(FSM - DFW - LGW)
After a small fog delay on Saturday, I landed at 08.40 and was driving out
of the long term car park by 09:05 - amazing considering how I've berated
LGW in the past for taking well over an hour to recover baggage and find a

Considering a round-trip to Fort Lauderdale on Spirit. Never used it before.
Comments? Thanks,
Mark

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2005/03/22/nhals22.xml
A former schoolboy who gave up A-levels to achieve his childhood ambition of
becoming a pilot has launched his own airline at the age of 18.
Martin Halstead yesterday announced his plan to operate a ...

I hear that a machines similar to an ATM are being installed at US airports
for departing non-US passengers. Apparently they scan your passport take a
photo and record you fingerprints, in much the same way as the immigration
officer does inbound.

Someone here mentioned something in an earlier thread that I found
intriguing: that a trans-Atlantic flight is pretty much like island
hopping. Thinking about it, I can see that it seems not to be
far-fetched: you fly over North-America, cross to Greenland, then

The second leg of some Air France flights is a train. Specifically, a TGV
departing from the train station at Charles de Gaulle.
I've heard of this, but now that I am planning a trip I wonder how it works.
Specifically,

In an effort to boost marital bliss I would like in the near future to
surprise my SO with a "spontaneous" weekend trip away to another city
in the US.  In order to maximise time having fun vs time in air I only
want to think about non-stop flights from our local airport, rather