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Oneil

August

stoneman wrote: »

Just did a comparison on Northwest site, and keeping with them for the whole trip would only have cost another £150 total. Might have been worth it to be on their nice newish A330.
Have a look at them, they are my airline of choice now, nice planes, plenty of room, and don't be afraid of the connections, they are a breeze, and you get to get off the plane and stretch your legs after 8 hours.

I hunted out our flight back to get on the A330- and those are some fantastic prices.

NCL-AMS
AMS-JFK (3 nights in NY)
JFK-LAS
LAS-MSP
MSP-AMS

Flights with KLM- delta for internal and then on way back with NWA cost us £680 each for me and the Mrs. I think I may have been had- !!!!ing travel agents.

Oneil

August

nvh wrote: »

were you able to pick your seats for the NWA flights stoneman?

won't let me via. either Expedia or NWA website

is there a certain point where you are able to do it or are they just assigned at checkin or something?

30 hours before check in I believe- same for KLM. We could provisionally book some seats through our travel agent- but they only release a few so they were !!!!!. Going to change them 24 hours before the flight.

stoneman

May

Sorry, misunderstanding. My first flight has not had seats assigned. NW site says that you can only reserve seats from 90 days before departure, but Delta seats are assigned.

Oneil

August

stoneman wrote: »

Sorry, misunderstanding. My first flight has not had seats assigned. NW site says that you can only reserve seats from 90 days before departure, but Delta seats are assigned.

If its like KLM (pretty sure it is) then they open up a certain volume of seats 90 days before- I called the travel agent 90 days before and asked for my required seats. Only about 20 rows near the back of the plane were open. As it gets closer to the time more are released (KLM keep some at the very front of economy for frequent fliers). Best bet is to put a provisional booking then get on line 30 hours before flight and bag the best ones (they should have all been released by then) or get their early.

Froggitt

Looked at exp.aus - theres a checkbox that you need to check that has T&Cs like "There may be unexplained additional charges to pay".

nvh

May

worst comes to the worst, i'll deliberately break my leg before I go and just claim the tickets back on the travel insurance

seriously though, I think all T&C's cover themselves for extra costs just in case fuel charges etc increase so yeah, the T&C is there, whether they exercise it i suppose is a different issue...

i see what you mean though

there's been a 4-page thread on flyertalk for a while that is a good read
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=858460

mikewhi

Don't buy duty free booze or perfume over 100ml as you will have to bin it before entering the UK.
I found this out on Monday when i bought two 1 litre bottles at Detroit airport and had to dump them at security at Amsterdam airport to enter the uk.

MercilessKiller

Guys.. in Las Vegas now. Got forced to pay $10 in tips to some guy who gave us VIP card passes to Pure nightclub (fri/sat/sun) and Lax at Luxor tonight.... Apparently its free entry and VIP table...

Have I just been stung or are these passes real? They look professional and real enough but con men are con men!

Cheers guys

ferf1223

March

mikewhi wrote: »

Don't buy duty free booze or perfume over 100ml as you will have to bin it before entering the UK.
I found this out on Monday when i bought two 1 litre bottles at Detroit airport and had to dump them at security at Amsterdam airport to enter the uk.

I think this is because you are restricted on carrying liquids bought before you clear security over 100ml on board - not against bringing them into the UK. If you buy at duty free at a US airport and fly direct to the UK you can bring items over 100ml into the country. It's down to whether your connection requires you to reclear security as I understand it...you would have been fine if your connection hadn't required you to reclear security at Amsterdam.

Oneil

August

ferf1223 wrote: »

I think this is because you are restricted on carrying liquids bought before you clear security over 100ml on board - not against bringing them into the UK. If you buy at duty free at a US airport and fly direct to the UK you can bring items over 100ml into the country. It's down to whether your connection requires you to reclear security as I understand it...you would have been fine if your connection hadn't required you to reclear security at Amsterdam.

Ummmm- so i thought when you went through a connection such as the scenario above you didnt have to go landside and go through security again.

I've got an amsterdam connection onto Newcastle from Minneanapolis and I presumed that once I landed in Amsterdam I wouldnt have to clear security again?