Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2006

For three different years, 2001, 2003, 2005, I've always stayed
at the International Conrad, using the HH Pointed I had converted
from my excess Continental FF miles (I had about a million HH
Points and about that many CO miles during those years, PER

New concept in Travel sites!  Watch videos made by fellow travelers.
It makes exploring places much more fun, and much more honest.  It's a
new site and we're building it daily.  If you have suggestions for
videos or photo tours you think I should post, please use the contact

We plan to travel from the US to Ireland next summer. There is only one
direct flight per day.
Would you recommend booking now, or is safe to wait? If we book now, is
my credit card charged today?

I want to book a flight from San Jose, California
to San Diego, then a car from San Diego
to San Jose.  Any recommendations
on car rental companies for the one-way

Slight OT, but did milepoint.com merge into Points.com?  I'm trying to
find ways to offload my USAir miles ever since they cut the expiration
period--my 18K miles are due to expire in Jan and I have no plans to fly
before then.  I was thinking of just getting a bunch of magazine

If you're looking for cheap flights from the UK, let me help!
Ebay Flight Search Assistant:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=008&item=180048599720&rd=1&ss
pagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
And if I can't find you a cheaper flight than you already have, you don't

My shares are in a nominee account Is it worth the hassle of applying for
the discount ?
Or are there so many caveats and cheaper deals elsewhere that it isn't worth
the effort ?

What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.

Foodapest - 8th International Food, Drink and Food Processing Industry
Trade Fair 21 - 24 November 2006.
http://hungaryeurope.googlepages.com/hungary.htm

This is an amazing site: www.mycitytrips.com has videos online from all the
tourism boards of the countries. It is like a tourism exhibition. If you do
not know where to travel to, this is a perfect guide!

I will be flying Delta neaxt week from DTW.. does TSA still do the shoe
x-ray thing?

FedEx Scraps Airbus A380 Order, to Buy 15 Boeing 777s (Update2)
By Mary Schlangenstein
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- FedEx Corp., the world's largest cargo airline,
scrapped its order for the troubled Airbus A380 jumbo jet and said it

Anyone know why they dropped the PIT-AUA run, can't believe it was
because of low interest
Ken

www.msnbc.com
A note about Brian Williams' report because I have not yet seen a
similar note.
I regret being a paranoiac; but this stuff has always been my concern

Is it me or is Ryanair's new (ish) baggage policy just a con? If you want to
check in bags you pay accordingly. Nothing wrong with that (although the
pathetic panic measures of the Government don't allow you much choice as
regards carry on luggage).