Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the rec.travel.air
newsgroup. This FAQ is intended to gather these questions and their
answers into a convenient and comprehensive reference. The hope is
that this will cut down on the user time and network bandwidth used to
post, read and respond to the same questions over and over, as well as
answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask.

Posts of a commercial nature, such as the buying and selling of
airplane tickets, should be posted to rec.travel.marketplace and not
this newsgroup.

An updated version of this file is posted once a month on the 13th of
the month to the newsgroups rec.travel.air and news.answers. The
version date for the file is located in the header near the top of the
file.

In between postings, the latest version of this FAQ is available by
anonymous FTP from 
   ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/mkant/Travel/   [128.2.206.173]
using username "anonymous" and password "name@host" (substitute your
email address) or via AFS in the Andrew File System directory
   /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Travel/
as the files airfare1.faq, airfare2.faq, airfare3.faq, and airfare4.faq.

Other files available from this directory include:
   bucket.faq       Edward Hasbrouck's FAQ on Bucket Shops and Consolidators 
   classes.txt      List of fare classes
   discounts.txt    Table of Airline Special Fare Discounts (29-JUL-92)
   em_intrfrnc.txt  Summary of EM Interference by Laurie Bechtler
   ff.faq           Joel Chan's Frequent Flyer FAQ
   flt_attdnt.txt   Description of the Job of a Flight Attendant
   iata.tgz         List of worldwide airport IATA codes by Peter Loibl
                    and Paulo Santos
   jetlag.txt	    The ANL jet lag diet.
   online.faq       John Levine's FAQ on Online Computer Reservation Systems
   tourism.faq      Where to get tourist/travel information

The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on
   rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/travel/air/handbook/ [18.181.0.24]
If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by
mail server as well.  Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more
information.

A HTML version of the FAQ is available as
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/travel/air/handbook/top.html

If you need to cite the FAQ for some reason, use the following format:
   Mark Kantrowitz, "Air Traveler's Handbook", rec.travel.air, <month>, <year>,
   ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/mkant/Travel/airfare?.faq, mkant+@cs.cmu.edu.

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