Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/09/spain.germany
German woman spends decade in Palma's airport
Bettina sleeping at Palma de Mallorca's airport. Photograph: Jaime
Reina/AFP/Getty

We are flying to France next week, Ryanair Stanstead-Dinard. Due to the
15kg weight restriction on hold luggage I am tepmted to use rucksacks,
as they are about 1/2rd the weight of suitcases. Is this a wise thing to
do? Are we likely to had baggage looted?

Will fares go so high that only the rich can fly?
By Tim Wimborne, Reuters file
"We have had our fun; the party is over," an airline analyst says of fliers
who had grown accustomed to cheap tickets since the industry was

I've been on hiatus for oh, say at least 5 yrs.  is there any of the
old gang left here still posting? Larry in DFW(Arlington,Tx).

    ... booked through 3rd party sites (ex. Orbitz, Expedia, etc.).
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ryanair-travellers-may-lose-bookings-14
49260.html
Ryanair travellers may lose bookings
  By Laura Noonan

The 'ole two sides of the story are bound to come out.   Charges have
been dismissed, no idea if the lawsuit is still going through.
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I want to purchase a rolling carry-on.  Just before I clicked on the
Rick Steves 21-inch Roll-Aboard,
<http://tinyurl.com/lw8m>
I saw that the comments section for this item at amazon.com states the

Haven't posted here for years and was under another name but that's by the
by...
Not strictly a purely air travel question but I'll ask anyway because I have
been out of the travel business myself for a few years and now need a little

Anyone out there know what happened to betterbidding.com. I like to
visit that site, as well as biddingfortravel.com, but the later does
not provide any information on Hotwire. I just went there to see if I
could a little more information on a hotel for a pre-cruise stay in

I'm flying from Cardiff, UK on the 18th on XLA1128. Now having dug
around a bit I realise this flight becomes XLA1129 when it returns from
Sanford.
What I would like to know is what flight number did XLA1128 have before

S80s mostly used by AA and 767s used by AA and it now appears Quantas, are too old and should be retired....
I flew AA 767s to Hawaii from Chicago back in the 80s!!!!!!!    I now will only fly the 777 with UA to Hawaii......
I go out of my way to avoid these planes and also the ...

What is the most shocking thing that you have ever experienced in
life? For this parent, it was seeing their baby die in front of them.
Their 4.5 month old son, Aditya, died on International Jet Airways
flight 229 from Toronto on 17th June 2008 while the flight was landing

About a year ago I flew American Airlines.  I ran into an issue at
check in and complained to the supervisor at the terminal check in. I
made a bit of a stink about them wanting to charge me an additional
$50.00 because they claimed I did not get there in time. I actually

Hi going to rent a car in London on Friday at noon and go out till
sunday at noon. Flight back to heathrow is at 3 pm sunday.
Any can't miss things, thinking of doing some combination of Bath,
Wales, Cornwall and the Lake Country