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Old Feb 3, 2007 | 5:53 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
Are there government regulatory reasons why they couldn't fly on such days?

If that's not it and LY management thought that it made market sense to fly on such days, why wouldn't they do it?
They would lose a fairly significant portion of their customer base. That portion has no problem flying an airline that flies on the Sabbath when it is owned by non-Jews but does have a problem when that airline is owned by Jews.
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