Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / December 2005

I'm looking at a guided tour of South America for a holiday next year,
specifically Thomson holidays discover South America or the shorter
Peru guided tour. Has anybody been on either of these? I realise there
be a lot of air and coach travel but is a lot of time spent waiting

Has anybody seen the TV commercial about buying five boxes of Polident
and getting a free companion airfare voucher to fly anywhere in the US?
Get the details at www.polident.com Btw, I'm working on this
promotion on behalf of GSK, if you would like information on this

    [ Dubai gets it right, where Daley, the FAA, redtape, and ORD
     fail. -Ed. ]
http://www.deepika.com/english/latestnews.asp?ncode=31426
Dubai announces world's largest airport

I'm planning an itinerary where at one point I'm going to have to get
one-way from Berlin to Frankfurt  in time to catch my return flight
back to Canada. Anyone know of any cheap fares or carriers within
Germany, flying that route?

It has inadequate toilet provision. There are toilets at every gate, but
they all have only one cubicle and they are full of Indians doing god
knows what.
And then when you try to get on the plane, everyone is hoarded into tiny

Here is something odd one of the virtual flight simulator airlines are
doing.
They have on aircraft they are calling a 767-389. I wonder where they
got that odd designation for a 767 from. There is no such aircraft,

Here's how I did it:
I made reservations from a discount ticket agency for two round trip
tickets from Narita to the US - one for me and one for my wife.  At the
time of the booking, the agency asked me the exact names on the

I've heard that Emirates will be starting service to Chicago (and
perhaps up to 8 other North American cities) in June 2006 (I assume
part of their large plane orders start arriving at that time?)  Can
anyone confirm this?  Also, any idea when they will start service to

Local detroit TV station just showed a picture of a Southwest 737 that
skidded off the runway at Chicago's Midway airport (lots of snow falling).

I wish to travel to England in June 2006. We'll be travelling from
Atlanta to either Heathrow or Gatwick or any other international
airport. We'll be staying for about a month.  We need some advice
regarding booking air fares. Should we contact a travel agent, or book

OK, so now everyone knows that Virgina America is starting service and a new
hub at SFO.
Does anyone know where their operations headquarters will be?  By the
airport?  In downtown San Francisco? Or in another bay area city?

New York Times
December 9, 2005
Air Marshals Tell of Burden in Reacting to Mental Status
By MATTHEW L. WALD

Frequently Asked Questions
  About
Michael Voight
The "mrtravel" psychopath of Usenet.

To buy domains like
www.fly2americas.co.uk
www.fly2asia.co.uk
www.fly2fareast.co.uk

and "non-rever"??