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Old Jun 18, 2008 | 1:31 am
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Originally Posted by PHL
If the casinos want to bring in people badly enough, they can form partnerships with airlines and subsidize tickets. The airline can offer a PHL-LAS roundtrip for $250 as long as the MGM Mirage corporation is footing the other $200.....
Exactly.

Any entity in LAS that fears a reduction in flights will cause a decrease in business is more than welcome to subsidize air travel to get people to come and play.

Better yet, they can send me a check or blackjack vouchers and cut out the middle airline.
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