Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / June 2008

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article4074413.ece
From Times Online
June 6, 2008
Zeppelin airships to fly over London again

Janet Fullwood: Air travel’s next outrage: -- hold onto your seats
By Janet Fullwood, Bee Travel Editor - jfullwood at sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, June 8, 2008
Story appeared in TRAVEL section, Page M

Posted May 31, 2008 at 8:56 pm ET by Carl Unger, SmarterTravel.com
Staff
Peanuts (Photo: iStockPhoto/Joe Cicak)
US Airways announced Wednesday it will stop offering free snacks

For the risk of sounding stupid, there's no mask you could have on
hand, just in case???
Full read:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/06/03/american_sued_over_peanuts_on_f
light/6099/

Ryanair News
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News Release

Summary of the headline figures
In May 2008, passenger capacity, measured in Available Seat Kilometres, was
1.3 per cent above May 2007.  Traffic, measured in Revenue Passenger
Kilometres, fell by 0.7 per cent.  This resulted in a passenger load factor

Boeing 747 splits in two on take off
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A large cargo plane crashed at the end of a runway
and split in two while trying to take off Sunday at Brussels airport,
authorities said.

Do any of the "net jet" or "fractional jet" companies offer directly any
kind of travel insurance policies, not for their regular charter or
shared ownership clientele but rather for us ordinary airline travelers
in the middle seats in Economy Class, along the lines of "we'll get ...

Business airline Silverjet has gone into administration after financial
problems forced it to suspend all its flights, leaving passengers stranded.
The cancellations left about 7,000 UK and 2,500 non-UK customers needing to
make alternative plans at short notice.

Please forgive my newbie questions but I would appreciate some
guidance.
My family needs to stop in Ankara for a few days en route between India
and USA. Time frame is late December - not good for low fares. :(

"It's a guarantee - oil at $150, $200 dollars a barrel, there will be no
fuel surcharges on Ryanair" says CEO Michael O'Leary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7432731.stm
Gerry

I'll be travelling to Scotland and will have a four hour layover in
Dublin.  Will thre be anything to do there?  Also, will the airline
hold my bags or do I have to watch them during this time?
TIA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7430883.stm
Aviation boss criticises Heathrow
Giovanni Bisignani
It's a wake-up call, an emergency situation and things must change

I was on a Delta flight from ATL to SFO yesterday, and the FA upon
landing the FA said "Please Stay Seated Until the Doctor Has Parked the
Plane at the Terminal Gate." She corrected herself, but as I got off I
asked the pilot, "are you the doctor that landed the plane." Now what

Thir boss was interviewd on CNBC yesterday.
He says Southwest has been hedging (buying, selling) in futures
contracts for a decade (or more or less).
This is what futures markets ought to be about.