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

January 30, 2004

Ooops, Wrong Airport
When Terrie Stong flew to Orlando for a convention last week, she jumped for one of TransMeridian Airlines’ bargain fares from Toledo Express Airport. But when she got to Florida, she discovered she was at one airport, while her rental car and conventioneers she was meeting were at another. That’s because TransMeridian flies to Orlando Sanford International Airport, 18 miles northeast of downtown and 33 highway miles north of Orlando International Airport, where all traditional airlines serving Orlando go. Local travel agents said yesterday several of their clients have run afoul of the airport confusion, usually because those customers booked their own rental cars. Toledo Blade | Posted 7:30 a.m.
-- See TransMeridian Airlines Web site
-- Review: "I was not pleased at all" with carrier

• Orlando is among my favorite airports (the other Orlando) as I mentioned in a recent write-up. Send us your comments.

Roaming Gnomes Are Back Again
The advertisements first appeared Dec. 15. Pictured on movie screens, posters, and newspaper pages was a two-foot-tall garden gnome with a ruddy complexion and pointy red cap. He stared yearningly at the horizon. "Wanted: My Garden Gnome. Have you seen him?" the ads read. As it turns out, the ads were a precursor to an $80 million Travelocity advertising campaign. In the latest television ads, the gnome, speaking with a slight British accent, narrates snapshots of his adventures: bobsledding, duct-taped to skis, and submerged in a hot tub. Christian Science Monitor | Posted 7:45 a.m.
<-- Newsday: Travelocity endorses "gnome economics"
<-- Can a gnome rescue Travelocity?

Northwest Data Didn't Amount to Much
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it was able to extract only a small amount of passenger information from the data that Northwest Airlines handed over in 2001 as part of a secret aviation security project. Northwest acknowledged recently that it gave NASA three months of passenger records so the agency could test a "data mining" project. At least two class-action lawsuits have been filed, claiming that the airline illegally shared the data and violated passengers' privacy. Washington Post | Posted 8 a.m.
-- Seattle PI: Northwest Airlines swings to a profit

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• And finally ... what's the best way to get an airline out of bankruptcy? Why, give the planes a new paint job, of course. Details of United Airlines' new livery were leaked to the bulletin boards. The light-blue scheme looks sharp, but not as sharp as the 36 inches of legroom it announced this week. Posted 8:10 a.m.| Send us your comments.

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