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Airport Terminal

Florida’s Daytona Beach International Airport wants to drum up more business for its little-used runways. One niche they plan to exploit: flying out dead bodies for burial elsewhere. To encourage increased use of their facilities, the airport will give funeral directors 500 frequent flier miles for every body shipped. “We’re going after every kind of business we can get,” says Volusia County Councilman Big John. “We’re going to put this airport back on the map if it kills us.” (AP) ...At which point someone will get 500 frequent flier miles.


Publication Date: 8 August 1999

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