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E L L I O T T' S TRAVEL NOTES
Travel news, opinion and analysis

April 16, 2004

Measles Warning for Air Passengers
The government on Thursday broadened a warning to airline passengers about possible measles exposure, adding three flights to a list of planes carrying infected Chinese babies who had just been adopted by U.S. parents. Passengers on those flights who develop fever or rash on or before Saturday should see a doctor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The warnings came after measles was confirmed in two more adopted Chinese babies recently flown to their new US homes. Four cases were identified last week. Three more are suspected. Of the six confirmed cases, there were four in Washington state and one each in Maryland and New York. AP | Posted 7 a.m.
-- Washington Times: follows similar outbreak in 2001

• Germ incubators. That's what the unventilated, overstuffed airline cabins have become, as I observed in a column a few years ago. Carriers could change that - if they wanted to. Send us your comments.

Ex-Airline Worker Gets Ticket to Jail
A former airline employee received a ticket to jail after police arrested her on charges of helping to sell airline tickets illegally. Police at Raleigh-Durham International Airport arrested Dana Elaine Perry Pippin, 47, on Tuesday. According to an arrest warrant, the Franklinton woman helped to embezzle more than $220,000 from Atlantic Coast Airlines, doing business as United Express. She is charged with aiding and abetting embezzlement. News & Observer | Posted 7:10 a.m.
-- Star-Bulletin: Losses of $100,000 in tickets scam

Americans Rev Up Travel Plans
Our bags are packed, and we're ready to go abroad again. War worries? Terrorist bombings? Money issues? No matter. Exit the timid tourist. Enter the Teflon tourist. That's the scenario, tour operators and travel agents say, as spring brings a bumper crop of international bookings by Americans. We're even going to Europe, despite the powerful British pound, expensive euro and recent bombings in Madrid. More evidence of our lust for travel: The State Department is busily cranking out passports. It shipped nearly 13 percent more from October to February than in the same period the year before, the first significant increase since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Kelly Shannon, spokesman for the department's Bureau of Consular Affairs. Los Angeles Times | Posted 7:25 a.m.

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• And finally ... I'm back in town after a whirlwind tour of Alaska. Stay tuned for the full report. Posted 7:30 a.m. | Send us your comments.

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