Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / April 2006

Looking for advice/suggestions on where to stopover for a couple of days en
route to the Phils.
I've done this before in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, but really would
like to split the trip to the Phils into 2 x ~8hour segments.

Curious epsiode at LHR T4 today. While in the very long queue waiting
to go through the scanner (oh yeah I saw staff smile twice in 30
minutes - a personal best) the guy in front of me went through the
scanner 5 times, each time pulling out another bit of metal as the

 I was checking the October 1970 Air Canada timetable for something else
when I noted Flight 510, Toronto - St. John's, NF with seven intermediate
stops. It left Toronto at 2255 EST and reached St. John's at 1035 NST.
The routing was Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal - Moncton - Halifax ...

a few months back, I came across an extremely useful website to compare
no frills as well as conventional airlines with the special function to
include airports nearby the ones specified. For example, I entered I
wanted to fly from London to Munich, and it came up with an amazingly

I hear that they may put Sleeper seats on the 757-300 between us and
europe and us and chile and argentina?

Got a daughter in France this week, due to head back to the states on
Monday.
Have only caught bits and pieces of the unrest regarding employment,
but heard that air travel is being heavily impacted -- this all from