Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2006

A single from JFK to Manchester last May cost me less than $300.
Expedia has flights with Aer Lingus for that price; every other airline
costs over $750! What's going on here?

Yesterday evening, the flight Stuttgart-Dusseldorf cancelled. Advance
warning? None. Compensation? You get your money back. Hotel? Nothing.
You want to go, you can catch a train, or wait for the plane the next
day- if it flies. The girl on the checkin says it happens to over half ...

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Hey all
I have not flown in several years. Also new to internet think, so
pardon me if my question are stupid (I know there are no stupid
questions, but rather only stupid answers). In any event I am goinf to

Has anyone heard the latest on the negotiations going on at NWA? Living
in Minneapolis, it's a big deal here but not receiving any concrete
info. Anyone have any insight?
Thank you....

My wife and I are in the very early stages of thinking about a Round
the World trip.  Apart from New Zealand (I was there many years ago in
the Merchant Navy) and the USA (My wife's brother lives there) we
haven't actually given any thought of any other stopovers as yet, or

I am in a Maple Leaf Lounge in Toronto on a layover from HKG to SCL
(santiago, Chile).  I purchased a full fare busines class ticket since I
have to work on Monday and had a bunch of work to do as well as the 25+
hours on a plane.  I got to the HKG airport where I was informed ...

I am wondering what Aus will be like in the distant future. Will it
become part of the Asian economic zone or an American zone? What will
the country be like, the people, the land, the economy and other such
things.

Our Airlne industry is in dire straits!! What if NWA strikes? You people
won't be able to travel anywhere, except on a bus, which is what you've
becomed used to. GROW UP and talk about NOW.........9/11 will always be
in our hearts. I work for American Airlines and I lost a couple of ...

Has anybody flown with Qatar Airways.  We have a quote for December this
year to Thailand - bit longer as we have to change at Doha, but about
£1K cheaper than flying with Thai on the same deal (business class)
They seem OK when I checked their website etc., but I had never heard ...

PARIS (AFP) - One of the earliest Airbus (Paris: NL0000235190 - news)
planes was the first arrival at a new aircraft recycling plant in the
Pyrenees this weekend for an environmentally friendly end to its
30-year life.

Please pardon me if I ask lots of questions related to to this subject,
I am new the GPS thing. I have found lots of GPS units on the internet
and in stores, but they are all too much for me to afford. Also many of
the screens on them are too small. Was hoping to find something the ...