A request for assistance

[unixronin]

Update 2004-10-16 17:22

Our current "best fare" is a $366/seat flight from JFK to LHR Tuesday evening on Kuwait Airways, arriving Wednesday morning and returning Oct 30.  (Thanks go to novel_tharkun for finding it.)  We have an offer from ehintz for America West air-miles to get us from here (well, from RDU) to and from JFK.  We still have to figure out passport issues; I have an EU passport, but cymrullewes doesn't have one at all.  I should be able to get her an EU passport on the strength of mine plus our marriage certificate, but same-day emergency service from the British consulate is $180 plus regular passport fees.  Most or all of the girls could probably travel without passports in a family-emergency situation.

I still don't know whether this is feasible or not.  cymrullewes is more positive about it than I am.  I think I tend to be inspired to pessimism lately by the repeated setbacks and failures of the past five years.

Update 2004-10-16 20:33

Thanks and appreciation go out to our friend Snack (who has no livejournal to our knowledge), thanks to whom we now have most of the cost of cymrullewes' passport covered.

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(yeah, I'm going to keep frobbing the time on this update entry as the situation changes, so I dont end up with umpty-'leven different update posts.)