A cybersquatter holds liat.com and the whole strike/bankruptcy thing was a hoax...
Marvellous! Outstanding...
A jape, that was...
Cheers,
RAH
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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 14:43:35 -0500
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Somebody
Subject: Re:LIAT
I had our travel agent check on LIAT, and they are operating as normal. A cybersquatter at www.LIAT.com who was unable to sell the domain name to LIAT is apparently pretending to be LIAT and is spreading all kinds of misinformation. You might want to pass this info along to other FC00 attendees.
LIAT's official web site is http://www.flyliat.com/
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At 01:35 AM 2/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
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At 9:15 PM -0800 on 2/7/00, Lucky Green wrote, on cypherpunks:
> Hope to see you all at the conference. It is still possible to register
> at http://www.fc00.ai
Which reminds me. As of yesterday noon, there were still 5 seats on a
charter flight out of Boston, non-stop to St. Maarten, round trip,
leaving Saturday the 19th and returning Saturday the 26th for $950 each.
Unheard of. The lowest price I could get otherwise was $1300 or so, this
late in the game.
Call American Express Travel, on Federal Street, in Boston, 617-439-4400,
and ask Kit Macy for details, and use my name. If you get to St. Maarten
on *that* particular flight, I can probably give you a ride on the
catamaran we chartered, over to Anguilla for free. :-) Getting back to
St. Maarten on the 26th, , however, you'll have to do on your own, as
we're sending the skipper back on the 25th as part of the last-minute
deal we got, and we're taking the ferry back ourselves...
The reason I'm saying something about this flight in particular is that
not only is Delta not flying to that part of the Carribbean this year
because the hurricane wiped out their hanger/terminal in St. Maarten, but
also because, according to <http://www.liat.com> at least, LIAT went
bankrupt on January 20th, and nobody knows whether they'll ever fly
again. As a result, all of American's flights on several days either side
of FC00 to that part of the world are completely booked, especially to
Anguilla, where American has virtual monopoly on airline traffic. I'm
being told that this is exacerbated by the fact that it's President's day
weekend, as well...
So, with all that, it may very well be that these 5 seats available
through American Express are the only seats left going anywhere *near*
Anguilla for that period, from Boston, or from anywhere else...
Cheers,
RAH
Who, on Saturday night, was seriously looking at an open jaw trip with a
24-hour direct cat passage from St. Thomas to Anguilla in the middle...
:-).
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
