Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2008

Lots of useful information,including current passmarks,form
downloads,a list of offices and fees,permission to stay,Green
Cards,work permits,citizenship and asylum for Australia,New
Zealand,Canada,USA,Europe or anywhere else abroad.

I am looking for an electronic  keyboard (even just 36 keys is ok)
with headphones (no need
for speakers) that I can take on a plane as carry on luggage.  What is
the smallest keyboard that is available in stores or online?

http://www.flandersnews.be/cm/de.redactie.english/sports/1.278961
Flights without frontiers
(AP)
Sun 30/03/08 - Air travel to and from a total of nine mainly eastern

March 30, 2008
Aloha Airlines Halting Passenger Service
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 7:19 p.m. ET

We are on AA coming from Indy (American Eagle) into Ohare and then on
to Heathrow. The suggested schedule from AA's website suggests an 1:05
layover at Ohare. Seems a little close to me. Next flight isn't for 12
hours. We are going to London to get on a cruise, but we are going ...

Budget airline Flybe advertised for actors to fly between
       Norwich and Dublin to boost passenger numbers and avoid a
       £280,000 commercial penalty.
       The airline took the step to avoid a penalty charge from Norwich

I have been a member of airmiles programs for almost three decades.  I've
started bailing out of the programs because they all suck terribly.  I
dumped Skymiles two years ago, after finally getting two first class tickets
to Thailand.  My problem is that I still have a ton of ...

INVITATION TO TAKE UNIVERSITY ONLINE SURVEY OF TOURIST EXPERIENCES IN
THAILAND
Have you visited Thailand as a tourist? If so, you are invited to take
an anonymous survey conducted by the University of New South Wales in

T5 tech failure causes Heathrow chaos - CNN
Great series of video/sound bytes about the chaos at Heathrow T5.
Story Highlights
* Heathrow Airport's $8.6 billion new Terminal 5 finally opens to

was at an airport today trying to catch a flight to another city. I
normally work the Night shift from 6pm to 6am. I left work went to the
airport got my boarding pass and was hurrying to get to the gate...
Of course having has no sleep in the previous 12 hours, my patience was

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340624,00.html
Last time I saw a face like that, it was eating a carrot in the
stables!!!
LMAO!!!!

www.washingtontimes.com
Outsourced passport work risky
March 26, 2008
By Bill Gertz - The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSREE85411920080328
       The TSA said incidents of female terrorists hiding explosives in
       "sensitive areas" were on the rise and provided a picture of a
       "bra bomb" that was used in training its agents.

For a novel I'm writing, I need to know 1995 air fares (within 10%)
domestic USA and international. United AL was helpful when I began;
but something's changed in the intervening years, and though I write
repeatedly to them and they send a form saying they will reply, they

If not, there needs to be one, if only to applaud but also complain about
the crappy and questionable practices of both airlines and the TSA.  First
Amendment applies here folks (at least for US citizens)!   Think of it as a
place where airline CEO's could go to see how the ...