On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:01:19 -0700, randee wrote:
>B Vaughan wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:17:16 +0100, Tom Peel
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry to hear about your missed connection, but I just looked at
>> >the LH site and I don't see Mexicana listed as a Star Alliance partner.
>> >
>> >http://konzern.lufthansa.com/en/html/allianzen/star_alliance/partner/index.html
>> >
>> >However, the Mexicana site lists LH as a partner. Hmm.
>>
>> I guess Lufthansa doesn't advertise the alliance widely.
>I did not recall Mexicana being a member of the Star Alliance, and
>indeed this site does not list them:
The Star Alliance doesn't include all Lufthansa partners, nor all the
partners of its other members. Air Dolomiti in Italy is another
Lufthansa partner that isn't in the Star Alliance.
>http://www.staralliance.com/en/travellers/index.html
>A better possibility, connection wise, might have been VCE/ATL/CUN or
>FCO/ATL/CUN on Delta. At least it would be one airline all the way
>through.
We were looking for an airport nearer to where we live. We had
originally hoped to get a flight from Falconara, which is near our
home. However, Alitalia was too expensive and didn't have convenient
connections. Lufthansa flies into Munich from Falconara, but there
were no good connections to Cancun on that route. Bologna is about
three hours door-to-airport, and Rome or Venice would have added at
least three hours more.
>All that said, my wife points out that Mexico City does have a fabulous
>archeological museum which would be worth a visit if forced to layover.
We finally got to our hotel, unfed and still in ticket limbo, at 2 AM.
We wanted to be back at the airport at around noon to resolve the
luggage issue and visit the hidden, secret Lufthansa office as soon as
they reopened at 12:30. That didn't leave us a whole lot of time for
sightseeing. We did take a cab to the Zocalo and saw the cathedral.
That was an interesting short visit. First, we saw a demonstration of
the Mexican Communist Party, which had banners of Marx, Lenin, and
Stalin. We were really surprised to see that Stalin was still in the
pantheon; also mildly surprised that Fidel Castro, or anyone else born
after 1920, wasn't.
In the cathedral, a mass baptism was taking place, all but drowned out
by disco music blaring in the Plaza. There were maybe 100 or more
babies and young children dressed in white, and a tent outside to hold
waiting family members who didn't wish to bother with the mass. There
were lots of empty seats inside, although maybe not enough for
everybody. Maybe the music was for the entertainment of the
nonparticipants, or maybe they were being solicited by the Communist
party.
The baptism itself proceeded like an assembly line. At the appropriate
point in the mass, the parents and sponsors formed a long line, along
with the candidates, and proceeded to a different part of the
cathedral. One priest handed a candle to the sponsors as they
approached the font, a second priest performed the rite, and a third
priest handed a baptismal certificate to the parents afterwards. Then
they all went back to their places; the mass resumed and a group of
official photographers worked the crowd during the liturgy. We
couldn't hear a word of the service for the music outside.
--
Barbara Vaughan
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