Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2005

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Air France - AFR 358    
Paris Charles-de-Gaulle  Aug 02 01:15 PM    Toronto Aug 02 04:07 PM  
Departed.   Landed  

From the Canadian Broadcasting Company:
TORONTO, Aug. 2  - An Air France A-340 crashed at Toronto Pearson airport
this afternoon during landing.  Our reporter, JF Mezei, was riding his bike
along the runway racing planes as he does every afternoon.  He saw the

All,
Crash in Toronto. More details later
Alec

Air France 358 from CDG -> YYZ landed and skidded off the end of the runway.
The AF358 is / was an A340-???.  Early reports suggest that the plane landed on
runway 24  went off the runway crashed through fencing and ended up in Etobicoke
Creek. (No mention if it was 24L or 24R ...

I'm trying to book a train ticket to get me home and I need to know how
long it is likely to take me to get through heathrow airport on a
tuesday at about 5pm.
The plane will land at terminal 3 at about 16:45 - how quickly do you

Can anyone tell me how to go about getting the cheapest round trip
airfare from Frankfurt to Guangzhou for a 2 month stayover?  The catch
is, it must be a direct flight...no transfers.
Thanks!

I travelled from Dinard to Luton and my baggage sustained severed
damage and was registered by Serviceair as a complaint.  Ryanair
accepted this but wanted the receipt for the original purchase of the
bag or an estimate for repair.

Why are there so many conflicting quotes for these?
Anyone know what they are for EDI-AMS-MSP-IDA?
The average seems to be £148!
Are there factors involved other than the journey?

mrtravel's troll-a-thon is back.  It's obvious the loser is unemployed again.
He claimed he was moving to Roseville to work at HP (yeah, like anyone
was going to believe that!), but it's obvious he went to work at 7-11 or some
gas filling station where he only lasted a few weeks.  ...

I bought an economy return ticket (from a consolidator) for Emirates
Airlines flying to Shanghai from the UK, via a stopover in Dubai each way.
I was issued paper tickets.  Now I am a little confused.
All my tickets say I have booked "B" class (whatever that is), my itinerary

Does anyone know of a website to determine distances between
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Casey

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Delta airline representatives.
This is a big battery.  12 volts, 17 amp-hrs, 14.4 lbs., gel-cell.  It is now
coming back to me since the airline baggage people took it away, rather than it

Just got back from a vacation that included a quick roundtrip BOS-BHB
on US Express using a Beechcraft 1900D. An unusual plane, unusual
choice, I thought - any other carriers using them? For what kinds of
routes?