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Holiday flight in emergency landing
The Press Association Sunday October 22, 04:26 PM
A flight carrying holidaymakers from the UK to Cyprus was forced to
make an emergency landing after reports of a "haze" in the cabin.

Should you have to ask for permission from the
government before you are allowed to get on a plane?
The USA Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has
proposed that airlines cruise lines, and operators of

I am trying to buy a ticket:
Chicago - London  - Delhi // Bombay - Chicago
To consolidate my FF miles, I would like to stay with AA or its
partners.

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Changes from last week are indicated by the usual marks in the right margin.
Please look through this entire document, particularly the PLEASE NOTE at the

Changing from BA to AA at LHR, would "2 hr 50 min" connection time be
adequate? Or would it be wiser to choose the "4 hr 40 min"?

Any tips?  The cheapest at the "usual suspects" is $1200 which is $400
more than 2 years ago.

We're flying from Minneapolis to Bergen Norway next May and I'm
wondering if it's time to reconsider our normal way of doing
business.
Up 'til now, we've always bought our tickets as soon as we've decided

Revealed: the man who really invented the aeroplane
Tomorrow marks the centenary of a Brazilian's pioneering flight. By
Hugh O'Shaughnessy
Independent on Sunday (UK)

As some of you from previous posts may know, my family and I are booked
on a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale this coming April. Also as you may
know we will flying in the night before the cruise. In any event I was
hoping this go around to avoid renting a car, but someone else in my

I was thinking of using Hotwire or Priceline to book a hotel room in
Fort Lauderdale for the night before my cruise in April. Only thing is
that Priceline states that reservations are only for 1 or 2 people, not
3 like in my family, so they are out. This leaves Hotwire for booking

Travellers beware
Brit. Airways will refuse to provide advance seat selection on
International flights [ e.g. Europe <> N America ].
IF the first 40% of the seats in the section you will occupy, has been

While I'm pretty happy with London City Airport, KLM are starting to
fly to Schiphol from BHX at 9:30am or thereabouts from next week.
This, travel-wise, may be more convenient for me as I can take a direct
train from MK and avoid the packed peak-time Tube.

Hi,  I need to fly from London u.k. to Kathmandu, Nepal in the next few
weeks.  Someone who travels this route quite a lots says he finds Qatar
Airways (with a stop at Doha) good.  So I guess unless I hear otherwise I
will fly with them.

I'm thinking of flying UK-California/West Coast  at end of Jan/early
Feb 07.
Any likelihood of reduced fares/sales in the interim period?
Is there a slack period after Xmas when everybody is skint and so I

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