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Oh, those Europeans. They know how to live. Six-week vacations, fine wine, great museums … and consumer protection for airline passengers.

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Recent media coverage of a flight attendant arrested for public intoxication raises the question of how often pilots and flight attendants turn up for work drunk — or drink on the job. James Wysong weighs in.

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Don’t be fooled by the media hysteria following the flight of a SriLankan Airlines Airbus A340 from London Heathrow to Colombo , Sri Lanka without its left winglet (a small, sweptback vertical fin at the very end of each wing). The airplane made the trip two weeks ago, with passengers aboard, following a minor incident in which it clipped the wingtip of a British Airways 747 while taxiing for takeoff at Heathrow.

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Chevrolet is looking for a thousand drivers willing to gad about for free in one of the company’s revolutionary fuel cell-powered Equinox SUVs, each for three months. In return, GM asks only that the lucky recipients tell them frankly what they think of the car.

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