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All at sea in German
Europa 2 is a magnificent ship but it remains very much a German experience. Marketing material and documents may be "available" in English, but most passengers receive them in German. You suggest otherwise.
John Honeywell, @CaptGreybeard
Profiling passengers
There's no need for families on charter flights to clog up airport security. The charter company should ensure they carry back only the passengers they took out ... then a few random security checks should be enough
"Wilsoan"
Seeing young children and OAPs frisked is an appalling infringement of our principles of "innocent until proven guilty"
Frank Poster
If you're a white female in a Laura Ashley dress you won't ever be stopped.
"Olympic"
The best way to reduce the terrorist threat is to stop intervening in other countries' affairs.
Alex Cheshire
Luggage limits
Thomson has free hand-luggage of 5kg. Any more and you pay £48 return for up to 20kg of hold baggage.
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