Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / April 2008

As reported by the Daily Telegraph, which also poses the question "How
can this be considered a punishment?

Reports from Bloomberg and others...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aMUnRVd7RLH8

Struggling business class airline Silverjet has revealed it is in takeover
talks with unnamed suitors, sending its shares soaring 38%.
The loss-making UK carrier, which flies from London's Luton Airport to New
York and Dubai, says the talks may or may not lead to a formal takeover ...

Oasis Airlines
Excerpt from their website:
Notice To Passengers
Date: 9 April 2008 ­ 2050h HKG time

I've been living in India for a year now and I'm planning a trip back
to Brazil, my home country. My wish is to find a good balance between
cheap prices and 1 or 2 worthwhile stopovers (i have only 10 days
available).

Wow, three U.S. based airlines closing shop for good in one week? That's a
triad of death!
April 5, 2008 - Skybus Airlines
April 2, 2008 - ATA Airlines

BAA tested it for almost  year but never at more than 80 - 90% capacity.
Robert Atkins the BA development manager in T5 suggested it should be run at
100% in part of the testing about 2 weeks before the opening as he was
concerned it wouldn't work.

I wrote on here earlier about the flight safety thingy and my flight
got cancelled today. Now I am REALLY fahreeeaked out on flying. I hope
they sort this stuff out soon before a bad happens. Anyone else here
have a mess up flying this week???

I would like to inform you about an upcoming conference on September
8-10, in Budapest, Hungary.
The conference aims to focus on the significant solutions of
sustainable transport and to gather worldwide successful strategies

If you want read something about "TRAVEL" i just come accross this
blog which may help you :
visit at :
http://www.syubrawi.com/celebrity-cruise-lines

I've been engaged in never-ending exchanges (per e-mail and snail-
mail) with the US Air Dividend Miles department re. 500 miles I flew
on United last winter and want credited to my DM account. I mailed
them the original boarding card, and the "Travel Document" which I got

I'm looking for cheap airfare out of the country.  Something cheap to
escape for a couple days or a week.  I don't really care where I
go...really...absolutely anywhere.  As long as it doesn't cost me
much.  Is there a way to compare airfares to different countries to

Hey all
I just across the following on the internet. I can not being to use
all of the items on the list except CD/MP3 player. Anyone out there
know why CD/MP3 Players can not be used?

Someone told me today that you can use a cellphone overseas on flights
now. Is this true? Wouldn't the plane need some kind of router or
something to get signals out?
Thank ya,

Following on from my post a couple of weeks ago about, firstly 'traversing'
heefrow, and secondly about BA loosing all of our cases for 36 hours and one
of for a week ...........
We're now back from our 2+ weeks in Florida.