Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2005

The Reclining thread summary:
Recliners:
1.  Believe they should be allowed to recline.  This is true (at least
on the carrier I fly) based on the verbal and e-mail responses that I

Do you need a pasport to travel from nothern ireland, or will a photo id
be ok eg Provisional licence.
Thanks
Eddy

The best I could think of is the <3 mile daily heli flight from St Marys to
Tresco Isles of Scilly... Anyone beat that...?

we're going from Chongqing to Shanghai next month.  the two least
expensive options seem to be Air China and China Eastern.  the web
groups that relate experiences with airlines pan both of them.
any recommendatons?  other ideas?  we're going to do first class to

Don't any airlines fly between London and the East Midlands any more? I
am temporarily unable to drive, and couldn't find any flights
(Expedia/Opodo/BMI/BA) to Nottingham from London airports. Rail
connections are available, but I could spend up to 5 hours getting from

Hello..I'm flying soon and because of security measures in the U.S. I
will check my luggage unlocked from ATL to GRU. After clearing
immigration and customs will it be ok to lock my luggage on my
continuation flight from GRU to REC??  

Have you seen Seat Guru. It's a great site about airline seating plans. You
can get to it via the Flights page of www.wighttravel.co.uk
Oh yeah - they've got a competition to win Thomas Cook travel vouchers on
the Wight Travel site as well!

My wife and I will be flying from ORD or JFK to Geneva or Zurich in Sept,
possibly on a Swiss Int'l A330 as part of AA codeshare.  Before finalizing
ticketing, can anyone provide info about service or more importantly for me,
A330 layout and recs for economy class.

Are there going to be any this year?
I was thinking of heading over that way (nowhere in particular) for a
week or so in October some time - is it best to bite the bullet now, or
hold off for a bit?

OK, let's say that the average RT ticket on US brings them $250.  If
the no-pretzel policy resulted is sales of more than 4000 fewer RT
tickets during the year, the policy would cause losses, not savings.
You can count the pretzels you didn't serve, but you'll never know how

I have been in this group for some months.
What in the world happened here? I mean all the trash made by Nomen
Nescio. Is there no law to stop the offending expression against
mrtravel everyday? Even striking is that he posts the trash without

Hi guys, we have a decision to make.  For about the same $$'s we can fly
British Airways  from Toronto (7 hrs approx )to London  -   London (11 hours
approx ) to Singapore aboard a Boeing 777 with a side trip to Bali before
our final flight of Singapore to Sydney.  Or - we can ...

On the heels of the reclining thread, here is a link to a USA Today
article that reviews the latest edition of Emily Post's etiquette book.
It is updated by her grandson and his wife.  Here is the relevant
quote:

http://www.wesh.com/news/4657097/detail.html
In First Week, Registered Traveler Program Soars
Nearly 2,000 Travelers Sign Up In Program's First Week
POSTED: 4:49 pm EDT June 27, 2005

Union leaders at NWA walked out yesterday on talks with management. No
agreement was reached and a 30 day cooling off period may commence.