Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2007

Plot amongst various comic-serious plots in  the recent show
Denny Crane is forbidden to fly as commercial passenger
The rationales of Homeland Security are discussed
Lawyer Alan Shore argues for the plantiff Crane

Am planning a package tour to UK and Europe OCt 2007. Can someone recommend
a website that offers competitive fares and prices??
TIA

Check your Delta frequent flyer balance - hundreds of thousands of
miles may have just now disappeared prematurely!
This is the worst consumer trap I have ever experienced. They
apparently changed the rules in the fall to expire miles a year early,

Granddaughter is traveling to Paris this summer and will fly into CDG.
Plans are to stay a few days and then visit relatives in Manchester,
England.  Looking for interesting ways to travel from Paris to Manchester
that wouldn't be too stressful on an 18 year old who doesn't speak ...

I am doing feasibility study to start a travel agency selling air
tickets. Can someone provide me some pointers to get started. Is there
any place where I can get information about how a travel agency works?
Any help is appreciated.

I would like to go to NYC to Taipei via JAL ( or other airline) and on the
return trip, stay in Tokyo for a few days. Is there an additional fee I
would I have to pay on my airline ticket if I want to stay in Tokyo for a
few days?

Around 7 or 8 years ago I went shopping in the UK and on return to my
vehicle I was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage purely because
the police said they had a witness who had seen me drive through a car
park barrier to get in to the car park.

I flew from Darwin to Sydney with Qantas last year. This was probably
the coldest flight I ever had. As soon as we were in the air, I got up
to get the blanket and I still felt really cold. Only a few hours later
I went on the HKG with Cathay Pacific and the cabin felt a lot warmer.

I'm in the UK.  I notice that when booking flights, even on the
airlines' own web sites, they make a big show of displaying the taxes.
On many cheaper fares they also operate a 100% cancellation charge.
Does anyone know what percentage of the taxes are payable by the

Archive-name: travel/air/online-info
Last-modified: 2007/01/14
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I booked a round trip with AirTran several months ago, then got an
email saying they had changed my flight times by 3 or 4 hours.  I
figured that maybe the flight had been cancelled or something, but when
I checked on thier web site, the flight had only been moved a few

does anyone know whether a luggage deposit can be found in Gatwick
airport???
We don't want to carry along with us 6 baggages during our stopover flight .
Thanks.

If you intended to travel to Australia: wait another 2 months.
Continuous draught and excessive temps (today 38˚C just north of
Sydney) make travelling/sightseeing pretty unpleasant. And the forecast
for February is for unusually high temperatures.

Dear Air travellers,
For somebody I am researching on the internet for a good air fare from
Amsterdam to Johannesburg. I found a good price with Air France.
You will undoubtedly know that flying with Air France means a change at

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