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Old Mar 24, 2007 | 2:02 am
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As I understand it the USA Skycap work is sufficiently lucrative (due to gross overtipping), and all in cash, that the contracts to supply these services at airports, at least those in major cities, have fallen into the hands of organised crime.

From outside the USA we wonder how, with aviation having developed as a no-tipping area worldwide, this airline facility managed to develop as an exception.
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