While the FAA did for a while (after the TWA 800 crash)
suggest that airlines ask for ID, it's my understanding
that at no time was it actually a regulatory requirement
(I'd welcome actual cites to the contrary.)
A curious parallel: British Airways and Ryan Air are each requiring
passengers
Not really relevant to Raymond's main points made in his other posts,
but the big distinction in Europe is between trains that cross national
borders and those that don't. And I have bought international train
tickets (London-Paris, London-Brussel) without AFAIR being asked for id.
Of course they
At 9:41 AM -0800 4/25/01, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
If you book an airline trip you think nothing of giving a telephone
number.
Not quite- I don't think it's nothing. I find it a gross and
serious privacy violation when I have to show ID and provide a phone
number when I fly. That's one of
with above approach.
phillip
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At 9:41 AM -0800 4/25/01, Raymond D
On 25 Apr 2001, at 0:53, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
How could that possibly make a difference? It shouldn't matter if
the train trip were to the dark side of the moon.
If you book an airline trip you think nothing of giving a telephone
number. What is the difference between airline travel and
On 25 Apr 2001, at 13:34, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
Not quite- I don't think it's nothing. I find it a gross and
serious privacy violation when I have to show ID and provide a phone
number when I fly.
The initial point I was attempting to communicate is you can't
compare train service in
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:43:20PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
From our perspective, it will show the foolishness of government
overreaction (ordering a million animals to be slaughtered and burned
with tires and old pressure-treated lumber
Nomen Nescio posted:
AmtrakUs Bad Trip
If our national passenger rail line can't turn a buck running trains, maybe it can
by enlisting in the drug war.
By Michael W. Lynch
In addition to its high prices, weak coffee, bad food, and horrible service, hereUs
one more reason to avoid
On 24 Apr 2001, at 11:02, Ken Brown wrote:
You need phone numbers to buy train tickets? Why? Since when? The USA
may be a wonderful country but over here where we we employ
I believe in the original story the fellow bought a train from Phoenix
Arizona to Boston MA. This is a little
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ralph Wallis wrote:
I just read Database Nation, which notes that this was an immediate
result of TWA 800 and the Atlanta Olympic bombing. (Along with similar
policies for air travel.)
So it's not a sign of spreading. Since Atlanta was 5 years ago,
it's not a
At 11:02 AM 4/24/01 +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
and burn a million cows on pyres of
used tyres and railway sleepers (they are thinking of using napalm to
save money)
The chemicals in the materials you're using for your pyres are
poisoning the locals with dioxins... napalm is a lot cleaner and
Raymond D. Mereniuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe in the original story the fellow bought a train from Phoenix
Arizona to Boston MA. This is a little different then buying a ticket
for a trip from Waterloo to Sevenoaks or London to Manchester.
Distance wise it is comparable to a London to
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