Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / March 2008

If you're looking to top off your Dividend miles at US Air, be advised the
site that you will purchase these miles from doesn't implement secure
sockets.  For the unitiated, your credit card information flys (no pun
intended) over the Internet unencrypted.  Here is the address:

My wife and I are going from Boston to Torino, IT in June. Iberia airlines
is the best price. We have seen some negative comments on Tripadvisor about
Iberia but mostly about the staff being rude. For a nice savings, I can live
with people being rude. Do any readers of this group ...

Greetings! I was to travel by British Airways flight BA -0146 from
Kolkata - India to London on 2nd of March 2008. Unfortunately plane
could not land in Kolkata due to fog. Plane landed at Dacca- capital
of Bangladesh. The flight was canceled. A new plane brought us to

I have simple question for you travel experts. Are there any websites
or search engines that let you restrict hotel search to suites type
places (eg, Embassy Suites, Homewood suites)?
The industry appears to be geared towards selling single rooms in

Hey all
I have a friend whose family comes from Hong Kong. He was born and
raised in the US and now would like to go to Hong Kong for a vacation.
He has come across some consolidator airfares that seem pretty good.

to all of you out there who are willing to spend the extra dollar or
event change their habits in exchange for membership rewards bonus
points !!
I am becoming a freak about it ... any help here ??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/08/cnboeing108.xml
Boeing's new 787 'delayed' yet again
By Russell Hotten, Industry Editor
Last Updated: 11:58pm GMT 07/03/2008

I've just had the following problem with buying a ticket with a
European low-cost carrier, Vueling:
The system refused several times to accept my two US-issued credit
cards, a MasterCard and Visa. Both are perfectly valid, and I use them

While watching some old prog. about T5 yesterday, it struck me that
with the availability of internet access on flights, if a member of the
cabin crew was correctly trained, would it be possible for them to
process passengers through the destination's immigration regime

Am I blind or has the lovely lowest fares airline removed its 20 day
"find lowest fares" viewing field from its new enhanced website? The
best I can see is a +or- 3 days option.
This really is so time consuming when trying to book flights months in

List of Cheap hotel search engine and travel
bargain sites.
Guide for hotel search engine. Index the hotel
search engine. You can find a good and cheap hotel

Hi, I'm having hard time with KLM and expedia. I booked flights a
while ago for me and my, by then girlfriend, now wife. Tickets were
booked for international flight with KLM between UK and Malaysia and
return from Singapore and I booked it in her maiden name.

Dear,
Nagpur is a city in India which is located in the state of Maharashtra
and is home to nearly to 2.5 million people. Not only is Nagpur the
third largest city of Maharashtra, but it also has so much to offer

Woman dies during flight after being refused help
Alan Diaz / Associated Press
American Airlines MD-80 jet sits on the tarmac as fire rescue workers check
the passenger plane at Miami International Airport.

can anyone tell me how to search for flights from new york to honolulu
THROUGH lax, seattle, or sf?
i've been looking at fares and there doesn't seem to be any easy
search filter for a stopover on the west coast.