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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yummyham: I'm scheduled to leave from SFO to LHR on Sept 26, returning Oct 8. I have to first fly out to SF from NY before the 26th. My sister has told me that she does not want me to fly (she's more nervous about the domestic flight than she is the international one). In any case, I've pretty much decided to go, but without a satisfactory explanantion for my sister...</font> Hi yummyham. I'm leaving SFO for LHR on the 26th as well (returning on the 9th). I'll be on UA974, will we be on the same plane? To squeakr, I'm sorry you are postponing your flight, but you have to do what you're comfortable with. I guesse I'm looking at this UK trip as the last of what I know as 'normal'. The reality is that in a month or so we may well be involved in a major world war, my little business may be belly up, and our new warehouse is nestled underneath Chevron holding tanks (going into work this week I felt like I had a bullseye pinned to my back). I have a list of things I haven't 'gotten around to' in my life, and I plan to start to change that. You blink, it could be over, ya know? |
I don't like to make light of a traggic situation, but I just don't understand the concern here.
How can a retalitory stike in Afganistan possibly effect an SFO-LHR flight. You are safer on that flight now than ever. I am off to Mombai and then Islamabad on Wednesday and Thursday, I have no worries and no fears at all. What ever happens in Afganistan will be restricted to that region. You have the same level of risk at home as you do anywhere else in the Western World. Nick |
Well, merry. First of all, a retalitory strike
against Afganistan is not a definite. Moreover, the FBI continues to turn up suspects who have had flight training. So we're not entirely in the clear. Although the chances are very slim, another disaster is not an impossibility. |
I agree totally. We are not in the clear, we never have been and we never will be. But, it is safer in the sky this week than it was two weeks ago.
There is no good reason not to travel. Nick |
squeaker: If you are feeling apprehensive, then don't go. Its not worth the anguish and the nervousness that no amount of veuve cliquot and marginal airline food can assuage.
I postponed my upcoming trip to Iran until April, but daggum I'm going then http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif. The weather should be more pleasant and perhaps the situation will have eased. I'll admit that not knowing where )(*&I*# bin laden is in Afghanistan is making me apprehensive about travelling to the eastern parts of Iran (Mashad and Bam). I am getting on a plane tomorrow for a short trip to London and Paris. I'm out of chocolate and need a new scarf. I couldn't get a room in Paris for the next week for love nor money. They have all popped free this weekend. lala |
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