Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / September 2005

I flew Miami to Montevideo recently by American Airlines.  When I
showed up for check-in, i was told that I would not be allowed to board
since I did not have a return ticket (rather, a ticket to somewhere
outside of Uruguay) for a date within 15 days of my arrival.  I was not

I'm travelling (from Norway) to Bangalore, India in two weeks.  Looks
like I will be flying TRD-AMS-BOM on KLM/NW, then domestic from Mumbai
(BOM).
TRD-AMS is flown by KLM, but the AMS-BOM leg is a "real" NW flight.

I'm have my Marriott Rewards hooked into my United Mileage plus
account. I now find my self staying at the Marriott in Singapore, but
work sent me on a non-Star-Alliance carrier.
Will these points still count towards my Mileage plus rewards?

Hey...
I'm living in Atlanta, GA (USA) and fly to Islamabad (Pakistan) every
winter.
Thing is, I know some travel agents in Pakistan who'd give me a better

The new $400 million midfield terminal opened Sept.9th at RSW(Ft. Myers,
FL).  This will double the size of the airport and with it bring new
airlines one of which is Southwest in Oct.
I was just wondering what will this do to the market?  I heard many of

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fully reclining seat and far more freedom to move about even for th
cattle class passengers - all this without losing aircraf
passenger-capacity or increasing airfares significantly

    < Does anyone have better ideas than this? >
How to prevent your miles from expiring
If you've ever checked your mileage balance and been surprised to find
that you have fewer miles than you thought, you're not alone. Many

I'm looking for a flight from Seattle to Bangkok on short notice (about
a week from now).  All the cheapest flights all seem to be on China
Airlines, a carrier that I know nothing about (I'm surprised that Eva
Air flights are much more - maybe because of the short advance

Hi can anyone recommend a website dealing with cheap flights to the USA
sorry if this has been done before but I have only just found this newsgroup
and from what I have read it seems that if anyone should know it  would be
one of you

Last week I flew out of Houston IAH.  While standing in the Security line, I
noticed a few people in the line next to me.  They put their finger on the
scanner, and looked into the retina scanner.  When they were given the OK,
they were directed to the same security line that I ...

Morning all..
Me and the missus have 3 weeks off starting this monday, will try to
book a last minute deal at a travel agents to go away over the weekend..
However, has anyone got any ideas though on how easy it would be to turn

I'm traveling to London from Cork next year with my son. He is on my
passport and doesn't have one of his own. The EasyJet site says that all
passengers need photographic id but in other areas it references
children who are on their parents passports.

I travel a lot - at least one return flight within the UK per week, and
spend 2 nights away from home.
I need to bring nail clippers with me, and also would like to be able to
bring a pair of scissors or some other way to cut paper.  However, we all