Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2006

I'm due to fly into Luton from Athens on Easyjet in October.  I have some
fairly tight bus/train connections and was wondering what the likelihood is
that I'll make them:
Flight is scheduled to arrive at 22:50.

Here's what happened.
I had a job interview in San Francisco.
The interviewer set me up with a ticket paid by him to fly me out there.
I missed the fight. It was on UNITED BUT booked through ORBITZ. I've

I assume they are illegal now, either the self contained (IE Blue Ice)
or fillable ones.  I didn't see them listed on the TSA site, and I
assume they would fall under the 'gel' category.   I used to use a
frozen water bottle to keep a (homemade) sandwich cool on the outbound

I know that Air Canada is in the process of installing seat-back tv's
on all their aircraft (except A-340's that are being replaced).
Have they installed them on all of their B-767's yet?  We are going
from Toronto to London Heathrow in February and would fly Air Canada,

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0828/aerlingus.html
Aer Lingus privatisation plans to be announced
28 August 2006 07:29
The Government and Aer Lingus will formally announce the details of

There has been a lively discussion here around AA and One World award
travel. I have had some recent experience with that, summarized below,
in which AA did not come out with flying colors. No two experiences are
identical, and I can only speak for mine.

Does anyone know if  there are still pay showers at Frankfurt Airport?
I have looked online and am getting conflicting information..

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/monique%20refuses%20airline%20apolo
gy_1003725
LATEST: US comedienne MO'NIQUE has refused to accept an apology from
United Airlines after she was thrown off one of their flights for
arguing with an air steward. The TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME ...

I'm planning a 2 month trip to europe (leaving in 10 days) and to save
weight I would like to bring all my toiletries in small bottles like
Coughlan's contain-alls.  Has anyone had any troubles bringing items
NOT in their standard containers recently?

How can I find the "published" fares of an airline? Where are they
published?

One of the most common questions on travel newsgroups is "Should I buy
my air ticket now or wait for lower prices?"
Here are two sites that give answers to the question, but they only
work for trips in the United States.  Does anyone know of similar sites

Keep clearing those cookies! Based on your search pattern, website
computers can decide you should be shown only high fares...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/ramasastry.website.prices/index.html

Because of the faltering movie industry in the Los Angeles area, the US
government feels that there will be too many pyrotechnics, special
effects and electronics experts who will be laid off and become
freelancers for potential terrorist organisations.

I was trying to find how many daily departures US
airlines have at their various hubs - does anyone have
a source for this kind of data?
I downloaded the on time data from bts.gov - the only

Travelling Liverpool-Porto in November via RyanAir.
RyanAir have just informed me that the return leg has been cancelled
and have offered me a refund. Fair enough. No complaints.
But I also pre-booked my car parking at Liverpool Airport.