Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / May 2007

I'll be in Hamburg for 8 days mid-June, business trip, but some time for
sightseeing.  Obviously I can, and will, use Google to look for tourist
and sightseeing attractions, but if anyone has suggestions for what they
think are special highlights or things not to be missed, in ...

maybe things are more reasonable....
except the take your shoes off part.. thank goodness, I did not wear
combat boots or other shoes with laces...
well, I had a swiss army knife pen with me on this trip, and it was

The first time I decided to use TRAVELOCITY to book a flight from
Montreal to Orlando... we got a severe problem... My wife stays in
Montreal.  I used them because they found a outbound flight with US Air
(wooooshh!) and inbound flight with American Air Lines.

An amusing little tidbit from "The Register":
Forget binary liquid explosives, a British Airways stewardess has shown how
it's really done by popping her curry ready meal into a 747's club class
microwave, with explosive results.

Tip for people with more than 1 piece of hand luggage travelling from
Heathrow.
You will be stopped from going to the departures lounge (where there
are no seats and you MUST shop) for 'security reasons'. But if you put

Argentine scientists have discovered something that world travelers
need to know . . . http://shamvswham.blogspot.com/ has the story today
about the studies performed on Viagra to determine its effect against
jet-lag and the results are really quite spectacular. Read the

Wondering if anyone out there has actually signed up for the IRIS biometric
identity check facility... passing through LHR soon with a little time to
kill and was thinking about doing it.
[If you don't know what IRIS is see

I am planning on going to either Manila or BKK from a major USA city
this June/July.
Was planning on booking for a 2 month trip, BUT
PROBLEM is I have NO IDEA how long I will be staying. It is more likely

Pissed of is not the word I would like to use but lets see what you all
think. I packed all my make up, nail polish, nail repair stuff,
toiletries etc in individual plastic zipplock baggies one with make up
stuff one with nail stuff  one with toiletries all in my suitcase. Ok

The "America's Innovators and Entrepreneurs" talk radio show on
American Airlines is a paid Advertorial disguised as news  - a VNR
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNR), IMO.
I just got the spam email below offering to put my company on the show

I would like to fly to Hawaii in December, but i would like someone to
help me with cheap flights. Can anyone help me with this???
Thanks
Rell

I was about to book a flight from London to Calgary on
http://www.canadianaffair.com/
The flight carrier is "Thomas Cook Airlines".
I've never bought any travel insurance before. But with the following

I'm travelling through LHR this Friday (why?  don't ask) and will be
arriving T1 on a UK domestic flight, departing T1 on an international
flight.  I've got a through ticket and will remain airside, going via the
Flight Connections Centre.

On a return flight from the US on Virgin (a route I fly often) one of my
cases was damaged beyond repair.
The case is one of a set of 4, purchased for this trip as our old ones were
looking quite "tired".

We fly from SFO to Frankfurt, usually Lufthansa, the smallest seats ever it
seems.  We just dread the trip, but business is ridiculously expensive and
mile upgrades seem almost non-existent.
We love the space on JetBlue, and I've looked at SeatGuru.com, but you never