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Oct 19 2009, Marco Villa

Regulation destroyed the days of high-flying. Prior to the ushering of mass traveling, airlines were mostly a business class luxury. The industry had the image of sexy coolness. Pilots are not the faceless union members of today, but were in league with..

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