Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / November 2006

Today I landed in Johannesburg and because of ramp construction the all
the pax on the Cathay Pacific 747 had to be bussed from a parking spot
in the middle of the apron to a jetbridge.
Last month engine problems with a LAN Chile A340 caused a 3 am flight

Jet2 are selling free oneway flights just pay the taxes, must be bought by
Nov 3rd.
Is this a sign that they aren't selling as many flights as they should be,
or is it a clever marketing ploy on the basis that pax have to come back and

Looks Like Padraig will get to see Milano next year.
New Daily Services:
 . Dublin to Budapest, Geneva, Lisbon, Prague, Venice and Zurich will
   increase to daily flights.

I need to be in Orlando early January for a work conference, now this is the
first time I have crossed the pond since 1998 and looking for any advise you
guys could give me on routings etc.
I would probably be flying economy/economy plus, and at a minimum I would

20 % off from USA to Europe.
Is this a good price?
http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/us/homepage
James

I want to get a bag that's 8cm over Virgin Atlantic's allowances.. It
seems such a tiny amount, and I've never had the size of my cabin bag
checked closely before. But then I haven't travelled since the new
safety measures... Has anyone noticed these things being checked more

A few months ago Ryanair started charging a Checked-in baggage fee of
£3.50, each way, with allowance of up to £20 Kg.  Increasing their
allowance from 15 Kg (extremely restrictive as the average suitcase is
4-7 Kg) to 20 Kg was a sweet way for them to partially cover the

Whether steps that land itself not to be unimportant, whether more
importantly you can find the soul in the pure land, heart Tibet.
Families of the 69 Chinese also remember such speech: The nationality
is a world. The national minority accessories become the metropolis

Did a three day trip last tues-weds-thurs Stansted-Lubeck-Stansted by
Ryanair. Went down with a massive lung infection over the weekend.
Didn't meet anybody coughing in Germany and wonder if I could have
caught it through the planes air conditioning?

I have a connecting flight beginning in one U.S. city, going into
another U.S. city and then from that city to Austria.  Will I be
required to check my bag earlier than the others on my first flight,
just because I have an international destination?  Are the baggage

I note that there are a lot of cheap flights where an airline flies
out, arriving at (say) 10:25am. The only departure time for the plane
is 10:50am. I presume that the plane is being turned around and the
same plane is flying back. Is it possible to fly out and then

FAA Examining Why CO Jet Missed N.J Runway
Oct 31, 12:01 PM (ET)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Federal authorities are investigating how a
jetliner carrying more than 160 people landed on a taxiway instead of