Category: Sidebar
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Austravel Fair, London
Austravel, the Australia and New Zealand travel specialists are holding a fair in London Saturday 30th August 2003. Lonely Planet will be at the Austravel Fair, where they’ll be offering…
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Luggage Complaints
The UK's Air Transport Users Council, the passenger watchdog organisation reports that complaints about baggage problems continue to increase more than in any other category. Almost a quarter of all…
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SARS
There is huge relief among Asian airlines after the World Health Organization declared that the SARS virus has now been contained in all affected countries. Taiwan was the last area…
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Bangladeshi Bus Bust
Police in Bangladesh have announced new measures to combat the organised gangs who are terrorising transport owners, workers and passengers into handing over money at many of the capital, Dhaka’s…
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LAX Airport
Los Angeles’ mayor, Jim Hahn has revealed plans to make LAX “the safest and most secure airport in America.” This involves knocking down three of the nine terminals and introducing…
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Travel Quiz: Fiji
Win a Moon guidebook on Fiji. See www.moon.com for info on Moon guidebooks. Some people have said the quiz is difficult, we say do some research; try google.com or Ask…
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US passports to carry digitally signed Images
US citizens will be issued with “smart” passports carrying a digitally signed photograph by late 2004. The new passports will include an embedded microchip that stores a compressed image of…
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Answers to: So You Think You.re Well Travelled?
find out the nswers to: So You Think You’re Well Travelled? MUC = Munich, Germany GOA = Genoa, Italy YTZ = Toronto, Canada SGN = Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam…
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UK Air Rage
The UK Government is cracking down on air rage by imposing strict sentences on those found guilty of endangering an aircraft with disruptive behaviour. Serious air rage incidents have increased…
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Bath Spa Opens
Bath, well known as being a genteel Georgian spa town has been without its spa since 1978, when it was closed due to an amoebic bug. But now, as from…

