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Should We Tip Flight Attendants?

Frontier Airlines encourages passengers to tip flight attendants but that's just a bad idea for a lot of reasons.

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Should We Tip Flight Attendants?

Frontier Airlines encourages passengers to tip flight attendants but that's just a bad idea for a lot of reasons.

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Just after I managed to take a photo of my friend in the Monocoupe, he snagged a photo of me in the ol' 140. Nothing like a nice winter afternoon! Copyrighted photo by Josh Cawthra.

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