Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2006

BA faces boycott as travellers get really cross
By Ben Fenton
Last Updated: 2:16am GMT 24/11/2006
British Airways faced the prospect of a growing boycott by

I want to take a connecting flight that leaves 30 minutes after
my flight arrives. The problem is united.com is not showing
this option for me. If I book the later connection ( one leaving
four hours later ) can I ask the check-in clerk to be put

My daughter, the corporate road warrior, came up with a new twist to being
late to check in for an American Eagle flight....
She and two others, marginally so, but on time, were waiting in the counter
line - going for 10 days and needing to check luggage -  at a very small

Does anyone know: there is a late departure in Dec (10:30pm depart IAH) to
Paris.
What do they serve for meals? A late-late dinner + late-late breakfast? Or
early-early breakfast and lunch?

Anyone have any good places to find fares from SFO or No. California..love
to get a reasonable fare ..I live in the Sacramento-San Francisco area so
lots of airports in the area.

Do domestic airlines within India use/allow e-tickets? The route I am
looking for is served by Indian Airlines, Sahara, and possibly Jet.
Thanks.

Marshals kept off plane at Reagan
A team of federal air marshals was prevented from protecting a recent
flight from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport because a gate
agent erroneously said they did not have the correct paperwork, say

Some time ago I came across a web site from the USA that discussed
various "frequent flier" programs and special offers- and how to
maximize "points" or "miles". The man who managed this site spoke from
personal experience and was not selling a book - from what I recall.....

Time for the semiannual trip across the Pacific. Anyone done this on
United recently? Has the economy class (or economy plus) experience
improved since my last SIN-HKG-SFO-NRT-SIN ordeal? Or is it still the
1972 planes?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-perfin19nov19,0,5347526.column?page=1&coll
=la-home-business
I read this LA TIMES article, but am not sure what's what (what it
means).
Capital One's policy/practice  has

there have been some discussions about buying booze, wine, etc. airside
and taking it on a flight.  I often check prices as I'm going to the
gate and have never found any fantastic bargins.  certainly none that
are worth carrying around a bag of bottles on my trip.

Something I have wondered about for a long time. I hope that this is
not considered a stupid question but I am hoping that somebody could
please inform me why most of the posters to this group call an
'Aircraft' a 'Plane'

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Apparently, Travelocity lost their Roaming Gnome. There's a whole
site where some reporter is supposedly looking for him and she got a
hold of Travelocity's casting tape for the role of the gnome.
They're asking for people to send in their own gnome audition tapes.

US Airways has proposed an 8 billion dollar (cash and stock) "merger"
with Delta.  Plans are for the combined entity to operate under the
Delta name due to better worldwide name recognition.  $1.65 billion
could be saved through operational synergies according to the CEO of US