Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / July 2005

Big problems at UAL this Holiday weekend. Many flights cancelled for
lack of crew? How can an airline in bankruptcy have its work force
disrupt schedules on
this Holiday weekend?  It's like driving another nail into its coffin.

I need a seat recommendation for a flight with Lufthansa A340-600 in
0-66-279 configuration from MUC to SFo in economy.
Are  the middle seats in row 21 (first row after business) good seats
or is there not enough leg space.

Excerpts from
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112061365613778106,00.html?mod=todays_us_mark
etplace
One winner of a recent American Airlines contest says he would have
been better off losing. The contest awarded free tickets to travelers

www.ajc.com
The Atlanta newspaper has many articles about the industry, including
yesterday's or today's pessimistic report about the legacy airlines
being particularly hurt by the price of fuel.

I am flying Virgin UK to US later this month and have looked at their list
of allowed items which is a little ambiguous.
It says no compressed gas.  Does this include deoderant in compressed-spray
form?  And would it include an inhaler for asthma (would this need a doctors

I've heard that there are a number of organizations that sell airline
tickets cheaply. Is there some consumer-oriented website that rates the
cheap-ticket organizations?  Can these relatively inexpensive airline
tickets be bought at the last minute or within the week before travel,

Geez.  I have only been Platinum and have over 1 million miles on AA
but you know, I have never needed to dc power anything until now.
Does AA use the standard DC "cigarette lighter" port or does one need
an annoying "airplane dc converter" adapter for my cigarette lighter

Archive-name: travel/air/online-info
Last-modified: 2005/07/03
No changes from last week.
Please look through this entire FAQ, particularly the PLEASE NOTE at the end,

Southwest Airlines to Serve Fort Myers, Florida!
              Airline Adds Sixth Florida City to Its Route Map
DALLAS, June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines, the
low-fare leader, solidified its Florida presence today by announcing

Booked 3 tickets to Heraklion from Manchester with XL.com 4 weeks
ago,flying out next week.Tickets were promised *2 weeks before flying*
but not received yet.emails to them just produce stupid automatic
replies which are no help at all.Phoning their help line on 0870 169 0

I can't find any discussion of Hidden Cities on the net dated after '03
and that one simply mentions some pending litigation that was expected
to favor passengers on the issue. I would greatly appreciate any info
on the current situation, and specific answers to these questions: Do

A couple of days ago, I heard that a Continental Airlines flight bound
for Cleveland from California (I think) had an explosion or fire. The
plane had to make an emergency landing, and the passengers were
transferred to another plane. I haven't heard anything else about this.

www.uschinatrip.com
KDCAL Travel
Tel: 1-626-282-7108
Email: ticket@uschinatrip.com

I've just bought a ticket from Stansted (to Europe) and the airport
taxes are £22.60 and £45.10 - no explanation given.
Is there an online resource where I can check whether these are in the
right ballpark (so far all my Googling for "airport" and "tax" merely

What are recommendations for programs that allow you to cache large amounts
of web pages to your hard drive so you can browse the internet without a web
connection?