Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / February 2007

My sister is in the Air Force and will be stationed in England for the
next 2 years. I am eager to visit her...however I know it is rather
expensive. Does anyone have any suggestions as to making the trip more
economical for me. Maybe a cheaper season, cheap restaurants, etc.

Hmph!  I made a booking DUB-CRL-DUB with FR back in December, for travel in
May.
I took a look at my booking online today (don't know why, just did...) and
discovered that my flight times have been changed - not that FR bothered

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/02/15/passengers.stranded/index.html
Warehousing people on the tarmac should be against the law.
The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey should lead in legislation
to prevent this sort of thing.

By JUAN MANUEL PARDELLAS, Associated Press Writer
TENERIFE, Canary Islands - A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in
cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then
accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants

Hey, rec.travel.air looks like a group that had great potential when
it started.  Sadly, it seems to have been overrun by spammers.
Well, about 80 of us road warriors have been running a group over at
http://groups.google.com/group/Business-Travel   for some time now.

I booked flights in December 2006, with Ryanair, for my son and family to
fly to Spain in June 2007.
As we all know there has been a tax levied since then and I have heard that
different airlines have different ways of dealing with this. I would have

The airport is not half as bad as described on this group, although it
is far from being great.
The distances are large because it is a large airport, period. In most
cases there are moving walkways, and they are working. However, at

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For a return flight from 8 months in Brisbane, Aus to Calgary, Canada
in December 2007, my sister and I are contemplating a week stopover in
Fiji on the return flight.
Two questions:

I've read a lot of the posts about overweight passengers taking up more
space than their own seat and inconveniencing or hurting the passenger next
to them, and how the airlines are hesitant to take any action against the
overweight person due to the so-called diasbility issue.  ...

Tony
Nottingham
England
15 February 2007

I am interested in taking this airline from Rome to Zurich...it has
one stop in Vienna...who knows anything aboutthis airline...the price
is fantastic compared to ridng 12 hours on a train.
Any help appreciated.

My wife and I stayed at the Seastar Inn in Negril Jamaica. While reaching for an earring that she had dropped, my wife discovered a small spy-type camera mounted on the back of the armoir/dresser, and it was pointed directly at our bed! We searched the room and found another ...

Does anyone know if Norwegian are likely to keep flying from Manchester
to Bergen after April? No flights are scheduled on the website, and I
can't find any news either way online.
TIA

I'll try and be as brief as possible;
I have been accepted to complete a semester abroad in Hamilton, NZ
from July to November. My initial intent was to fly into Brisbane and
chill on the Gold/Sunshine Coast from May, then fly to NZ in July,