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In this issue. An exclusive interview with United Airlines’ Barbara Higgins about that viral video everyone’s talking about. Plus, find out why one honeymooner’s tickets to Morocco didn’t work, and take Traxo for a test spin.
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• United Airlines’ Higgins: guitar blunder “made terrific fodder for a video”
• Business travel group supports turn-back law for airlines — who will join it?
• “If these aren’t tickets then how did I get out here?”
• Survey: 1 in 10 Americans would ask William Shatner to negotiate a travel deal
• “He said/she said” dispute with insurance company costs family $34,500 — now what?
• Continental Airlines faces $27,500 fine in tarmac stranding incident
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