Air Travel can be very messy and stressful unless we know the procedures of each airport.
Here are some guide lines based on my personal experience.
1. Booking Air Tickets
You can always book air ticket through a travel agent or online by yourself. Normally booking through a travel agent is cheaper. After booking, you should print out the e-ticket (the itinerary) because you need the e-ticket number to check in at American airports. For example, if you are coming back to Penang, you can log in to http://www.aa.com (American Airline) and book the ticket. You can specify the city you depart and the destination city, and the departure date and the returning date. Normally American airline corporate with Cathy Pacific to complete the whole trip.
2. At the airport, you have to go to the airline counter and check in your luggage. At Penang airport, you have to get your luggage scanned before you proceed to check in your luggage. Normally the luggage will end up at the last destination unless you want to stop in other city for one two days.
3. At US first landing airport, you have to go thorough the imegresen check point where they check your passport and VISA as well as I-20 if you are a student. You have to go thorough the custom check too. If you are only transit at that city, you don't have to claim your luggage. Straight away go to a connectiong flight (we call transfer or tansit). Normally you have to go through security check if you are boarding another flight in US. At you need to take off your shoe and take out your laptop. They won't check the software you use.
4. Remember to retain the I94 form and return to airline counter at the airport you depart from US.
5. There is no custom check at US airport when you are leaving US.
6. The information at Los Angeles Airport is a bit haphazard. For example, when you arrive at Terminal 4 from an internal flight, you have to exit this terminal and walk to the International Terminal(Tom Bradley International Terminal , TBIT) and look for the airline counter.
7. Normally the American airline will inform the departure gate before arrival but Cathy Pacific won't inform you but you can refer to the digital board. Normally International Terminal for transfer is Gate E2 at Hongkong Airport.
8. Remember, we always aks the airport personnel if we don't have enough information.
9. Very important to look after you travel document carefully, that is your passport and e-ticket.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Special effects Studio
This is the place they create all kinds of special effects! They can just take your video and put you inside in scene of a movie immediately, replacing the actor inside! For example, they can make you murder by somebody instead of the actor inside. Very interesting! Yi and xun sure like it. Must come and visit one day. Good learning experience!
Jaws!
Great white shark appearing with blood in the water! This is the place Steven Spielberg created Jaws!
Earthquake in a tunnel
As we entered a tunnel for the train, earthquake happened and the train came crashing on us! Everything was shaking vigorously! Very real and scary!
The making of disaster scene
This is a series of three pictures that create a water disaster scene! Water rushing down and came near us in split seconds, and splashing on us! very scary! This is part of the universal studio ride! This is the place they make disaster show.
Boat for venturing in Jurrasic part.
Once enter the boat got to hold tight to the safety bar, so cannot take photos. Saw all kinds of robotic dinosaurs inside, and look very real! At one part we entered a cave almost vertically up, and were attacked by tyrannosaurus at close range! Then the killing ride down the waterfall to escape the dinosaur attack!
Jurrasic Park
Very exciting and scary ride! Last part the boat slide down a waterfall at fast speed! Xiang was trembling for 10 minutes or so!
Monday, August 18, 2008
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