Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / June 2005

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Michael Voight
The "mrtravel" psychopath of Usenet.

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NEW TSA OUTRAGE: FINES UP TO $10,000
06-04-05  <excerpt>
     The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) - the government

Does anyone have comments about the advisability of using the rental
car insurance provided by some gold card credit cards or an American
Express platinum card?

'Son-of-Concorde' plans unveiled
Japan and France are to work together to develop a successor to the retired
supersonic jet aircraft Concorde.
Companies from the countries will split an investment of $1.84m-a-year for

Anyone know the criteria for entering the US i am uk resident and my
passport is eu type, i heard this will alow me in without visas anyone know
regards Frank

Does anyone know if any rental agency is actually on-site at the Kansas City
airport (MCI)?  Both Hertz and Avis are off site and require a shuttle bus
ride.  Are all the rental car pickups off-site?
Thanks

just returned from a 4 hour trip on Northwest in first class.  since
the price was quite a bit lower than Delta, we paid for it.  they
served a lunch which was quite bad.  in addition the flight attendents
were grumpy and lazy.

has the attitude at Europeean airports changed re scanners since I
visited a few yers ago ???  I always travel with at least oni hi-tech
"toy" or radio
a few yers ago, I traveled to Germany to visit relatives and play

7 years ago I flew to Tel Aviv from JFK with Alitalia. Since the flight was
through Rome (JFK to Rome; Rome to TA), the travel agent had me take the
connecting flight from Rome to Tel Aviv a few days later, enabling me to add
a visit to Rome without a change in the ticket price. ...

Just out of general interest, do any commercial flights fly over Iraq
anymore?
SImon

I'm going to be flying first class for the first time in a couple of weeks.
I need to decide which airline to fly from ft myers FL to Portland OR. I
would like to hear some opinions on who has the best service and luxuries in
first class. My mom went with Delta. They're okay I guess ...

I've been toying with the idea of a round-the-world
ticket and trying to decide whether those on offer represent
good value for money or not.
On the one hand, a bargain return flight is certainly cheaper

Doing a return flight  Munich to Wash/Dulles to Los Angleles next month.
We do the Customs and Immigration in Washington don't we?
How does that work?
Once we pass through do we place our luggage on another conveyor or do we

I am planning a trip Sydney, AU for later this fall or early next year.
Can anyone give any suggestions for finding a great airfare on the
Internet?
Are certain days I should look at when booking an airfare to SYD? Are

We don't fly as much as we used to for a variety of reason, the main one
being it is not nearly as comfortable as it used to be.  Anyway, we
always used to dread the possibility of being seated next to a 'big'
person or near an infant for obvious reasons.  The question of being