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Old Aug 31, 2006 | 12:40 am
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Originally Posted by jsmeeker
It was SOP for American Airlines on Super-80s at DFW until a few years ago. Not sure why they stopped doing it.
This was done during Skylink construction. I don't know what the correlation was, but once Skylink was finished, it was back to the tugs.
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