Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2006

Just trying to understand if how an air travel scare like the one going
on right now affects prices.
With all the commotion involving UK, should we expect prices to drop,
especially for travel involving USA and UK?

This was all a story concocted by the Bush administration because they
supported Israel. Bush wants the Jews to continue to kill children and
women in Lebanon. So he decides to take the heat off this murderous
allies by saying there was a bomb threat

Clothing Banned from Air Planes in wake of Heathrow Liquid Bomb Plot
Discovery
by Kamal El-Din
Naked flyers wait at new securty check point just outside Heathrow

Ingredients for a Bomb Are Not Hard to Find
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 11, 2006; A11

In a recent thread it was suggested that SIN-NYC may come close to
crossing the North Pole.
I just got off SIN-EWR (SQ22 nonstop) a few hours ago; according to the
in-flight map it followed the southern coastline of Alaska and went no

Pundit on News 24 speculating just now that it's only a matter of time
before travellers will have to submit to "intimate searches" and wear a
"sterile jumpsuit" while their clothing travels separately.
But loads of nonsense being spoken as well: like metal detectors at

Does anyone know if you can wire money to yourself, saying using Western
Union or something like that?
Reason being, I had the unfortunate situation many years ago of having my
ATM card eaten up while in Europe - and I had not had a chance to withdraw

Apologies if this is an obvious question, but the answer isn't obvious to
me!  I am flying out of the UK in the near future on British Airways, and I
am of course aware of the restrictions about carry-on luggage. I am going
onwards beyond my destination (Zurich) and will need a ...

Ive just abandonded a holiday booking on the Thomas Cook website. I had
search for my holiday, selected one, got a full price breakdown (ie
'fuel' suppliment, surcharge flight meal blah blah blah') etc and got a
'Total price'

I have discussed this before, but just flew Delta PDX-ATL-BMI RT and
had *the* filthiest airplane I have ever seen.  It was a CRJ-200 -
everything around the seats was covered in grime.  The floor was
disgusting, the controls for the lights were grimy. Crap in the seat

Airlines ban hand luggage after bomb threat
Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:06 AM BST147
LONDON (Reuters) - Airlines banned hand luggage on flights out of the
United Kingdom on Thursday and warned of massive delays after police

"Steven L." wrote:

Security people became aware of the plot when they noticed large quantities of
Diet Coke and Mentos being purchased in the Heathrow airport gift shops...

We flew home after our holiday last week from OGG-ORD-BRU. At least
that's what we planned ... AA cancelled our flight OGG-ORD and found
us an alternative on Delta OGG-ATL-BRU. Since we had people pick us up
at BRU we had to get the word out to them but.. 12 hours time

The new carry on rules say that prescriptions can be carried on only if the
name on the medicine bottle matches the passengers name.  OK , I got that.
But, what about Non prescriptions - in my case Dramamine.  I normally carry
a small tube of Dramamine as I can't fly without ...