Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / June 2006

For a recent trip, my spouse used Frequent Flyer miles to buy tickets
for our two kids, and myself -- all coming from different locations
into PHL. My spouse is in DXB, so  this transaction was with the
Mileage Plus executive over the phone. No problem, he said, all the

http://www.zogby.com/features/features.dbm?ID=231
excerpt:
24. Some people believe that the US government and its 9/11 Commission
concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts

What is Delta's current status.  Am I safe buying a trans Atlantic
ticket for October.  Thanks.
Michael

Has anyone here flew from Stansted to Goteborg with FlyMe?
I'm doing the trip early September and just wondering what to expect.
TIA
Dave

Just wondering what is the best way to get from MIA to Fort Lauderdale
(not including renting a car). We are taking a cruise out of Port
Everglades and will be flying in a day in advance. Could use the cruise
shuttle to back to MIA, but I am not sure what to do when flying in.

With all the postings of bags that were searched and this or that was
or wasn't taken, it occurred to me that I've never seen a news story
or posting relating an account of the TSA searchers finding any sort
of explosive device and thereby saving the aircraft it was to be

Flybe cancelled their flight from Norwich to Exeter today.  One of the
passengers would have been a distinguished professor who was coming
here to give a talk.  A number of people are travelling long distances
to hear him, including one person who is travelling by train from

I found this online:
1. Is it genuine or is it some kind of special affect using some modelling
animation tool?
2. If genuine it is not BA is it?

The short story -
Continental Airlines agent accidently cancelled flight ... customer
logs over 400 minutes of phone time to recover flight. THEN tries to
charged $50 change fee.

Boeing will build larger version of B787 following Gulf demand
By Stanley Carvalho, Staff Reporter  GULFNEWS
Published: 06/08/2006 12:00 AM (UAE)
Seattle: Boeing has decided to manufacture a large version of the B787

  I want to make a reservation for a flight from LAX to IAD (I think
that is the code for Reagan airport in Washington, D.C.).  HOwever, I
want to be able to cancel it as well and get my money back.  Do I have
to buy a full fare ticket for that?  How much of a difference in ...

Is it possible to take your own sandwiches etc on to a flight to Florida ?
I omitted to click the 'meal on board' box !

Perhaps: Nationalization of oil companies assets in U.S. is a scenario
if this should happen, and there may well be WW II coupon-cards, black
markets, and cheatings ad hellum.
Oh yeah, well I hope we don't have to findout, but what is your

I was looking for an optimistic recovery article I saw in the real
paper a couple of days ago, and note this article index would be
relevant, though I do have much more significant complaints about stale
pretzels and boring CNN airport news.

This article is dedicated to:
A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he
was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia.
Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution.