Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / January 2008

A quick and imprecise check of New Zealand's import laws reveals that while
Groggy may bring 50 seegars into his remote island country when he returns
from Cuber on Silly8's first and only 747 direct from Oz to Ha'banana & RTN,
he'll not be able to order any more directly.

Snippet on one of the Portland news channels last night.
2007 had the least number of fatalities in crashes involving aircraft made to
carry 6 or more passengers since the end of World War 2.
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US Bans Spare Lithium Batteries from Checked Bags
Starting Jan. 1 air passengers in the U.S. are prohibited from
carrying spare lithium batteries in checked baggage.
James Niccolai, IDGNS

Travel out of the country, besides to Canada and Mexico?
Wonder where I could find such info?

Over the years, usually near airports, I've seen jet planes stationary in the sky.
Of course, I know this is impossible, but what is the science behind the illusion?
In the most recent case, I was riding an Amtrak train, going north and east, near EWR,
and I saw a plane outside the ...

Wife will be flying into LAX on United from IAD in February.  She will be
departing on New Zealand Air.  She is concerned that 2 hrs. won't be enough
(has a bad knee) to get over to New Zealand Air and get checked in.  Given
that her inbound flight is on time will 2 hrs. be enough?

I have a connection from a domestic flight  to an international flight
both in terminal C.  I was wondering how long it will take me to walk
from one gate to the other and if it is clearly marked.  The incoming
flight usually lands at gate 112A or another gate close by in the same

According to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_international_call_prefixes>, the international prefix for the
US is 011.  Does that mean that if I wanted to give someone in the UK
a US phone number, I'd give them 011-111-222-2222 (where 111 is the

Flying back Ind-PHL-Man Monday we missed our international connection.
We got in the long line for rebooking and people were told no hotel would
be provided because we missed because of the weather.
When we left the desk, we ran into the 2 (separate) people who had been

New posting at:
http://www.travelalerts.info

hi! happy new year! could any one pls tell me how much it cost from
nigeria to the u.s.a (air ticket) and vice versa. i am suppose to see
a doctor in sanfrancisco later in april and i am starting to make
plans.

Whenever I fly from an airport whose security line is short or empty, I’m
approached by a TSA agent as I pause to remove my metal objects from my person,
before entering the metal detector.
I’m usually some distance from the security gate (that is, not blocking its

I have been puzzling about something for some time, which somebody out
there must know - and after several pints of homebrew, now seems a
suitable moment to ask.
If a plane is shown as having landed (or "arrived") at - for example -