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Fly me

Bob Collins May 17, 2009, 9:13 AM May 17, 2009

In the old days, airlines once stressed the sex appeal of its employees to try to get you to fly their airlines.

They don’t do that anymore.

From the Department of Juxtaposition: The life of a regional airline pilot.

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About the blogger

Bob Collins

bcollins@mpr.org • @newscut

Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.