Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2005

Longest nonstop flight by a commercial aircraft
12000 miles, give or take, depending on whose report you look at, 23 hours
nonstop Hong Kong to Heathrow by a 777-200LR.
It could do London - Sydney nonstop and apparently Qantas are considering it.

This may be slightly off topic, but perhaps some in here may have experience.
I have been asked by a family elder to be co-executor to their estate, with
specific responsibility for disposition of their cremated remains. The relative
wishes to have the ashes scattered at sea in an ...

...since yesterday. Anybody know what's going on?
cheers,
Henry

I am hoping to get some advice on what town and hotel to stay at in
Mexico.  My husband and I have been to Playa Del Carmen twice and loved
it; lots to see and do in the Yucatan and a nice atmosphere in
town.(we've also been to Cabo twice but have heard it's gotten much

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Hi there, I haven't traveled much so need some help after being a bit
overwhelmed by the web sites.
I need to go from Vancouver BC Canada(YVR) to St. Kitts(SKB) and I
need to arrive at or before 4PM Nov. 25/05 local time.

Heathrow to demolish Terminal 2
Heathrow's Terminal 2 is to be demolished under a £1.5bn plan to revamp
London's main airport in time for the 2012 Olympics.
The airport's operator, BAA, said a new terminal would be built on the same

Let me start by saying that I live in Eastern Europe and money here is
tight. To me the $584.00 American Airlines stole from me is huge. It
all started in February this year when the american company I work for
decided to bring me over to the states for a short visit on business.

If you are travelling to Iran only use the european carriers as the
national carrier and it's agent parstours ( pars tours) provide awful
service. For more info go to [link] and read a real story.

am boiling with rage and disbelief. i was supposed to fly out of dulles
tonight at 520 pm, on alitalia to poland.  the metrobus to dulles runs
only once an hour.
thanks to the weekend track repairs of metrorail, i arrived at the

Query please..
Having not travelled for sometime, can one of you seasoned travellers please
tell me with these e tickets when you check in on-line and use the Fast bag
drop, how do you get one of those destination tag things around the handle which

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Just got back from STN today and received the news that my travel agent
supplying my forthcoming USA flight has gone into liquidation.
Phileas Fogg Travel London went down the tubes on Friday ...
Hectic days ahead for me. :-(

If you are travelling to Iran only use the european carriers as the
national carrier and it's agent parstours ( pars tours) provide awful
service. For more info go to wwww.parstours.ca  and read a real story.

   Okay, so I screwed up.  I thought I could remember a URL.  I was
on US airways and they gave us our 2 oz of pretzels.  The wife loved
them, and she typically isn't a pretzel kinda person.  They had a
web address on the bag but I of course didn't write it down.  I'd