Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2006

My wife and I are able to travel to Asia twice a year from Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, I am very tall person and find the economy class seating
extremely uncomfortable for the long flight.  I am rarely able to get exit
row seating, where there's a few extra inches of precious ...

Just a note to express my not unusual
second-guessing/ambiguity/ambivalence about de-regulation:
Discounter Air Tran has apparently vastly increased some of its
previous low fares .

Charlie Sheen interview by Alex Jones about 9/11:
www.911blogger.com/2006/03/charlie-sheen-questions-official-story.html
Sheen will discuss 9/11 LIVE on CNN tonight, March 22, at 7PM ET:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/showbiz.tonight/

What does "back-taxi" mean?

Hi, family members will be arriving on three different flights into
Heathrow on April 11.
One parent arriving from Dublin on Aer Lingus at 10:15 am, the other
parent also from Dublin

Changed planes at DFW last week - first trip through since all the Intl flights
were moved to Terminal D - and noticed a few changes.
The old Eagle satellite terminal has been shut down. Apparently, moving the AA
international flights to Term D opened up enough gates that Eagle ...

On the way to the airport (I left in plenty of time) traffic was backed up
for over an hour due to a vehicle fire on the roadway.  As a result I missed
my flight and had to rebook on a later flight.  Delta is charging me $25 for
rebooking.  Because my lateness was not weather ...

Hello all! I will be studying in Yemen starting in september. I've
found plenty of sites for airfare from Washington DC to Yemen, but I
can't seem to find any flights that originate there! I would like to do
a bit of traveling as breaks from my studies. You would think that it

Hey travellers.  I would appreciate any suggestions on the best way to
search for airfare deals when someone is flying into one airport
(Madrid) and returning from another (Barcelona).  It seems that most
of the travel related search sites don't really accomodate such a

Am trying to book air travel to Florence, Italy from New Orleans.
Online
services tell me to contact the airline. I end up booking separately on
two different airlines (American into Gatwick, then Meridiana to FLR).

In a weeks, I'll be traveling on Southwest airlines with a friend, and
I would like for us to be able to sit together.  Unfortunately, I will
not have access to a computer 24 hours in advance.  I see that there
are at least 2 websites to automate the check in process so that we'll

no registration required.
http://wxia.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77799
I wonder what the odds are in Vegas that concourses A&B in ATL will be
available in the very near future?

I think that's the term: Do airplanes follow great circles, that is, the
shortest path on the globe between departure and arrival?  If not, why
not?
Just wondering

Anyone having problems reaching www.easyjet.com? When I type it in, it asks
me if I want to save "index.asp" or open it. When I click "Open", it opens a
page of crap in Frontpage.
What's up?