On the Go ALL EDITIONS

• Published in: Newsday
• Main Author: By Elizabeth Wissner-Gross
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 07.01.1990
• Edition: Combined editions

Starting this month (through 1990), travel agents will be inserting notices (titled "Can I take it?") into airline ticket packets. The list was developed by the Air Transport Association and International Air Transport Association to help prevent fires and toxic fumes aboard flights. Among the dangerous items: matches, lighters, flammable liquids, paints, signal flares, bleaches, aerosols, fuel, camping gas, fireworks and drain cleaners. Consumers are advised to carefully check the list before leaving home. The "Age of Discovery" fair - honoring Columbus, 500 years after he landed in the New World - is to open April 20, 1992, and run through Oct. 12. Advance planning is advised, since accommodations in the Seville area are limited. Hotels started taking reservations last week. (The National Tourist Office of Spain recommends reserving through a travel agent.) But those who wait may be able to reserve at any of eight hotels now under construction. Travelers who want to honor Columbus but who can't make the voyage to Spain, might focus on Columbus, Ohio, instead. A commission is currently planning the 1992 celebration, which is to include AmeriFlora '92, "the first-ever international floral and garden festival in the United States": (614) 457-9292. Fly This By