Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2006

Can someone tell me whether Wombats live only in Australia,
or also on other continents?
Apart from zoos, of course.
We all know that Wombats are to be found in Zoos.

I volunteered my seat on an overbooked United flight and got
a voucher for a ticket anywhere in the 48 states. Is this
an Open jaw ticket?

"Mike Hunt" = "mrtravel" = Michael Voight = troll/netkook/psychopath
new sock puppet = same old sh.t
fired from yet another job = flooding RTA as usual
same old psycho, same old pedophile

I'll be travelling from Brussels to Sydney in a few months and would
like an opinion on whether to go with BA/Qantas, Virgin Atlantic or
possibly SIngapore Airlines (higher ticket price).
Last year I flew Qantas and wasn't extremely happy with the service,

What's the deal now with the safety of the contents of checked luggage
as relates to air travel?  What I'm talking about is theft.
For years we've been advised that valuable things like jewelry and
cameras should NOT be placed in checked luggage, but instead, placed

Cubana will be using Russian built IL96 aircraft this winter on
scheduled services between Havana and Toronto. And yes, the flights are
in US airspace when flying a direct routes between Cuba and Canada.

I am uncommonly exited by flying and my second ever flight will be to Fes
from Luton on Ryanair. I know they have no seat allocations and you have to
take the seats available as you board. Is there any way I can improve my
chances of getting a window seat? Is it worth getting ...

For the first time in my life (25+ years of International travel) I
checked into a hotel [in Brussels] last night to be told they had no
room available and they were bumping me to a different one.
This was entirely non-negotiable, and they refused to explain how it had

I asked a while ago about this and was told that Easy Jet
information was old on their website.
Well I have now looked at their new hand baggage restrictions
from 6 Nove 06, and there is a paragraph under baggage that says

I believe that as a regular visitor to the United States for the past 1
years that it is my duty to bring to the attention of my fello
travelers the manner in which Delta Airlines recently treated us.
Highlights:

Traveling from Dulles to LHR changing to BMI.  Not traveling on a thru
ticket so have to get luggage from UAL and check it in at BMI.  Will I have
to go thru customs, and if so is 2 and half hours enough time for the
transfer?  Thanks

TheBuyersNET.com is a new service which enables groups of people to get
together and make group bookings. If more than nine people gettogether
and book tickets to the same location you can get group discounts. The
fares would work out lower than any webservice. Check it out!

I had been a Platinum member of CO for 7 consecutive years and had
posted numerous FACTUAL reports about how that program is superior
to other FF Programs in the USA, and had always been on CO's side
when others complained about various CO policies that were necessitated

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4116
95&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
BA jet seconds from disaster in US 'near collision'
A packed British Airways jet was just seconds from disaster after
plummeting out of the sky in a dramatic near miss over ...

Would it not be quite fun for Christians flying British Airways in the next
few weeks to all wear oversized crucifixes when checking in and whilst on
board in support for anybody wanting to wear jewelry/pendants/symbols
representing their religion.  I am flying to Hong Kong with BA ...