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7online.com: Praying passenger is removed from plane 4/17/08
I don’t want to be too dismissive and need to know more specifics, but on the face of it this smacks of the kind of prayer that’s less private piety and more public propriety. I don’t know if it could have been started earlier or not to be [...]

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American: Normal schedule days away — chicagotribune.com
The number of canceled American flights stands at more than 3,000 since late Tuesday, wreaking havoc at the airline’s hubs in Chicago and Dallas and eroding its profits at a time the industry is hurting because of high oil prices and economic worries. Chief Executive Gerard Arpey said the [...]

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A couple of years ago, blog posts like this:
Gov Now Wants More Air Flyer Data, Redux | Threat Level from Wired.com
and this:
Practical Nomad: January 2004 archive on passenger name records and US/Canadian security surveillance
went by my eye, more or less under the radar. So noted, but not really impacting my daily working life. But [...]

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Passengers and employees showed up at Midway Airport today to find that ATA Airlines, code TZ, has filed for Chapter 11 and is ceasing operations. Earlier this week, Aloha Airlines (code AQ) shut down in Hawaii. We only had a few passengers affected by the AQ shutdown, but may have quite a few more on [...]

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There are a number of my co-workers that need to be reminded how to properly take a phone message:

Send an email. 
 Send an email. Don’t get up, scribble an illegible message with no date or time, walk all the way over here and drop it on my desk where I won’t see it and it gets [...]

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