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A good summer for Continental, Southwest

Remember all those crowded airline flights this summer? The airlines certainly do -- and much more fondly perhaps than many of their customers. More solid third-quarter profits were reported today, in large part because of heavy demand in the summer. This time it was the turn of Continental and Southwest.

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Tom Belden, a former Inquirer business writer, has written about Philadelphia International Airport, airlines, the travel industry, the conventions and meetings business for 25 years. He has traveled to all 50 states and extensively in Europe and Mexico.


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