Travel Briefs

Air Service Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld Airport, Building G 005, D-12521 Berlin, Germany; phone +49 030 60 91 37 30, fax 60 91 37 31, www.air-service-berlin.de) offers a 35-minute flight on a restored DC-3, the plane the Allies used to supply West Berlin with food, coal and medicine during the East German blockade.

Following a film on the time period, the flight, complete with period uniforms and music, goes along supply routes used during WWII. Flights are available on select dates from April to October 2008. €159 (near $236) adult; children up to 11, half price.

Every four years in Landshut, Germany, a historical pageant is held with about 5,000 participants dressed in period attire reenacting the celebrated 1475 wedding of Hedwig, a Polish princess, and Georg, a son of Landshut’s powerful Wittelsbach family. It is to be held June 27-July 19, 2009. Admission is €10 ($13); certain events such as jousting cost extra. Tickets online at www.landshuter-hochzeit.de.

In August, the Transportation Security Administration imposed at U.S. airports an additional security screening of persons wearing head coverings such as turbans, scarves, cowboy hats or berets, and people who refused to remove them could be denied boarding. However, in October the guidelines were modified.

Those wearing such head coverings now may be subjected to secondary screening, including pat-downs, wandings or passing through a portal designed to check for explosive traces. If an item still cannot be ruled out as a potential threat, the passenger may be requested to remove...