On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:23:13 -0500, Newbie
wrote:
>RPS wrote:
>
>: B Vaughan wrote:
>:
>: : I have flown them to New York and must say that it was very budget.
>: : The food was probably the scantiest I've ever seen. The seats were not
>: : particularly comfortable, but the leg room was acceptable.
>: :
>: : Recently there was a rather serious problem with them when a lot of
>: : their flights were cancelled because of an unusual number of planes
>: : pulled for maintenance. This was around the time of the Easter
>: : holidays and left people stranded in some places for 24 hours or more.
>: : I haven't heard of any other problems since. They are mostly a charter
>: : airline and have just recently gotten into the scheduled flight
>: : business.
>:
>: Thank you! I was about to give up on anybody having heard of Eurofly.
>:
>: The little info I could get from the web doesn't seem to be good. In
>: fact, minutes before i saw your reply, I posted another question on how
>: Emirates, Qatar, and Alitalia would be. All 3 provide decent
>: connections (11-12 hours; Eurofly nonstop is about 8 hours). I have
>: never traveled any of these. If you have advice, I would appreciate it,
>: preferably in the other thread.
>:
>: Many thanks again. I was so excited when I unearthed the Eurofly
>: nonstop, but I guess I am losing the nerve to try them :)
>
>I am avoiding that part of the world at that time due to serious
>terrorist threat. Chances are that something *will* happen in Iran,
>Iraq, etc and major European cities will be most vulnerable targets.
Which part of the world would that be? Spain, New York City,
London, Oklahoma, Washington DC, Sharm el Sheikh, Bali? Or,
using your fear logic, Columbine, Blacksburg VA, Port
Arthur...the list goes on and never stops.
My first rtw trip was started in March 2003, same time the
Iraq war started. It was marvellous - so much room on all
the flights:-)
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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