In reply to Fultonius:
> Ok folks, I've flown long haul with BA and KLM before and both were ok. US Airlines is coming up a little cheaper for getting to Oakland or San Francisco.
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I went ther in 1997,
Back then the luggage allowance was better with a US carrier.
We has an hour stopover in Dallas and changed planes.
On the second flight the only spare set was between my mate and I ( the transfer checking staff had seen we had just flown in from the UK)
We flew into LAX collected a hire car and drove upto the Valley.
We bivied inside the park and drove upto the village the following morning.
After checking into Sunnyside (better know as Camp 4) I drove out of the valley and droped the hire car off at the closest town with that the car hire company had an office and a transfer bus back to the valley
That's how we got there
Richard