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Forum: Air travel February 11th, 2007, 09:00 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 4
Views: 423
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Toronto YYZ and Silver Dart Drive

Toronto Pearson Airport. (YYZ)

Does anyone know if it is fairly obvious for a taxi from arrivals in the
new Terminal 1 to get onto Silver Dart Drive heading south , connect to
Renforth and...
Forum: Air travel February 11th, 2007, 03:40 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 24
Views: 711
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Extreme Green Anti-Airplaners

Mxsmanic wrote:
But since that supposedly came from plants originally, logically it should
also reappear in plant form in time. There is some evidence that this is
gradually occurring. Higher...
Forum: Air travel February 11th, 2007, 03:05 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 24
Views: 711
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Extreme Green Anti-Airplaners

Mxsmanic wrote:
Unfortunately that isn't an option. Also, large herbivores produce a huge
amount of methane, which is much worse for greenhouse effects than CO2.


Nop.

The carbon in the...
Forum: Air travel February 11th, 2007, 02:59 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 24
Views: 711
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Extreme Green Anti-Airplaners

Frank F. Matthews wrote:
Breathing has a huge load and should be curtailed.

Carbon in a human body comes from plants or animals (that ate plants).
Plants get their carbon from the air. It is a...
Forum: Air travel February 10th, 2007, 05:07 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 24
Views: 711
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Extreme Green Anti-Airplaners

Mxsmanic wrote:
I don't see what makes air travel more evil than other forms of
transportation.

Airplanes not only dump tons of CO2 and other stuff in the atmoshpere, they
dump it at high...
Forum: Air travel February 6th, 2007, 03:52 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 18
Views: 645
Posted By nobody[_1_]
United Airlines/ O'Hare question

DevilsPGD wrote:
Did the Canadian travelers go through US customs on the Canadian side?

Nop. before the follies, passengers could get off the aircraft and remain
in an isolated section of the HNL...
Forum: Air travel February 6th, 2007, 07:06 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 18
Views: 645
Posted By nobody[_1_]
United Airlines/ O'Hare question

AKT wrote:

Are passengers able to check their luggage through from Tokyo to
Toronto? Or do the need to pick it up in Chicgao and re-check it?

If the airline does both Japan-USA and USA-Canada,...
Forum: Air travel February 6th, 2007, 06:27 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 18
Views: 645
Posted By nobody[_1_]
United Airlines/ O'Hare question

ant wrote:
Nobody wrote:

In terms of keeping the same flight number, it essentially (but 100%
garanteed)

I meant to say NOT 100% garanteed)


Not necessarily! There's a Qantas flight...
Forum: Air travel February 6th, 2007, 12:27 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 18
Views: 645
Posted By nobody[_1_]
United Airlines/ O'Hare question

Rick Blaine wrote:
Yep. It's always been US law, but they've tightened up the implementation since
9/11.


NOP. Prior to Bush regime, there were many examples of passengers being
able to transit...
Forum: Air travel February 6th, 2007, 12:19 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 18
Views: 645
Posted By nobody[_1_]
United Airlines/ O'Hare question

AKT wrote:
Does the plane actually change terminals during that time? Or is one
set of passengers, arriving or departing, bused from/to the plane?

Sometimes they actually move the aircraft,...
Forum: Air travel January 30th, 2007, 03:19 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 191
Views: 6,034
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Coping With Child's Tantrum on Plane

Jim Davis wrote:
Actually, I think they just changed. In a group, if a lady or two
gets up, most guys just sit there, However, if a lady is introduced
to the group, most of us will rise to...
Forum: Air travel January 28th, 2007, 02:32 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 191
Views: 6,034
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Coping With Child's Tantrum on Plane

Mxsmanic wrote:
Unfortunately, you don't usually know that until it's too late.

A parent would have to be really out of touch with his children to be
surprised to that extent.

Flying is an...
Forum: Air travel January 27th, 2007, 07:29 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 191
Views: 6,034
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Coping With Child's Tantrum on Plane

ant wrote:
WTF are those parents thinking? Share the misery? *******s.

No all babies/kids are alike. And they do not have a on/off or a "snooze
for 10 hours" switch to make their stop.

Yes, it...
Forum: Air travel January 26th, 2007, 01:42 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 191
Views: 6,034
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Coping With Child's Tantrum on Plane

Shawn Hirn wrote:
The parents of that kid who wouldn't sit down on that flight out to be
ashamed of themselves.

Have not followed this thread specifically. BUT... consider cases where
the kid...
Forum: Air travel January 25th, 2007, 10:52 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 4
Views: 320
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Anti-Bush T-shirt keeps man off Qantas flight

Bogart wrote:
Why should QANTAS care about the passenger's opinion of some obscure
foreign politician?


Bush is certaintly not obscure in the world. He is the most despised war
criminal around...
Forum: Air travel January 24th, 2007, 05:53 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 39
Views: 764
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Passport prerequisite

DevilsPGD wrote:
Any idea why not air travel? What does a passport (especially an
electronic one) do that a PASS card cannot?


The PASS card is a proprietary US orwelian card linked to USA...
Forum: Air travel January 23rd, 2007, 06:18 PM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 13
Views: 727
Posted By nobody[_1_]
row 13 on aircraft?

George Max wrote:
As if renumbering rows makes the 13th row disappear. Please. It's
still there by another name.


A lot of aircraft have rows numbered as if the whole aircraft were coach.
So...
Forum: Air travel January 22nd, 2007, 03:07 AM Posted to rec.travel.air
Replies: 39
Views: 764
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Passport prerequisite

Logically, requiring a passport to enter a country is a valid policy.
However, when you consider that the US has signed free trade agreements
with its neighbours, this new rule goes against the...
Forum: Air travel January 19th, 2007, 10:30 PM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Mike Hunt wrote:
So you are saying it is not controlled by the amount of cooling of the
hot air that is done just prior to it entering the cabin. So, you
disagree with Boeing. OK.


Both of...
Forum: Air travel January 19th, 2007, 12:43 AM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

TMOliver wrote:
787: Outside air captured near the cabin, heated on the spot by electric
(radiant?) heat using electricity generated by turbines, then carried by
simple space saving wiring...
Forum: Air travel January 18th, 2007, 03:58 AM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Markku Grönroos wrote:
I have never said I disagree. The topic is the economy of heating the indoor
temperature of aeroplanes.


Cabins lose pressure and need a constant input of new air to keep...
Forum: Air travel January 18th, 2007, 03:36 AM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Bob Myers wrote:
that air HAS been compressed, it is in fact much hotter than the
outside air temp and has to be cooled before mixing with the
recirculated cabin air.

Pedantic here, but the...
Forum: Air travel January 17th, 2007, 12:36 PM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Since the electricity also comes from the engines, I'm not sure that I
see the economy in this.

There are arguments on both side of this coin. You are taking hot
compressed air...
Forum: Air travel January 17th, 2007, 01:57 AM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Nobody writes:

Drawing this air from the high pressure section of the engine decreases
engine performance. (one reason the 787 will not be drawing air from engines).

...
Forum: Air travel January 16th, 2007, 12:23 PM Posted to rec.travel.air,rec.travel.europe
Replies: 98
Views: 2,769
Posted By nobody[_1_]
Qantas: Always that cold?

Mark Hewitt wrote:
How are airlines heated? Do they draw heat from the engines like cars? If so
then heating will cost nothing.


Very cold air enters engines. As it enters the engines, it is...
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