I understand that some taxes are owed even if one is travelling on a frequent flyer award ticket, but isn't $100 a little excessive? I just booked a FF ticket...

I think that's the term: Do airplanes follow great circles, that is, the shortest path on the globe between departure and arrival? If not, why not? Just...

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Hi there. I'd like to make a trip to Europe this summer. Somewhere in South-eastern Europe(Sofia, Bulgaria or Athens,Greece). I currently live in the US. Can...

Good bad or indifferent. Please pespond your experiences and adventures. I purchased a package which includes Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm Sweden and finally...

When mrtravel won the Trivia Quiz and 5 CO Currency of $5 each, he wrote, I would like to donate the currency to a person or people you meet at your CO...

I've got my very first international flight coming up, Atlanta to London, in Delta business class, buddy passes we got from a family member. I'm a fairly big...

An international ticket costs $1200 at aa.com or 75K miles. Let's say I have enough miles and enough fdollars to go either way. I am trying to figure our which...

If you could join just one airline's airport lounge program, which one would it be? Mostly international travel, and I suppose comfort is most critical in...

"TRUTH" wrote in message ... Tenured Physics Professor Steven E Jones gave two seminars to...

I flew Jet Blue for the 1st time recently. I did a round trip from JFK to BOS flying north on 1 day and south the following day. Expecting a comfortable,...

Hi, I'll be flying from the US to Mexico soon, and every travel website I've checked out asks if I want to enter my passport information. They all either say...

When one has to make a last minute ticket change, Delta etal may get a couple hundred bucks USD for the enormous trouble, which has recently happened. When...

Greetings! I wish to travel to England in June 2006. We'll be travelling from Atlanta to either Heathrow or Gatwick or any other international airport. We'll...

How do travel agencies work? Specifically, how do they get paid? Recently, I decided to get a rate quotation from one of them for a round-trip flight. I...

khobar wrote: Someone else raised the point that this could easily have been a ploy to draw the air marshalls out into the open - I think this has...

Here is something odd one of the virtual flight simulator airlines are doing. They have on aircraft they are calling a 767-389. I wonder where they got that...

I have to go to Joburg from LHR on business the week after next, in economy unfortunately. As I see it I have the choice of South African,Virgin, and BA. All...

I've got a bag, my one and only Samsonite hard-shell suitcase, that measures about 63 inches total (w+h+d). How "to the inch" are domestic (US) airlines...