With Free Wi-Fi topping the list of passenger requests at airports, it is no surprise that the effectiveness of this business model is prompting top tier venues to join the AWG network.

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Helios has also denied delaying the release of the passenger list although a company representative acknowledged that a list released on Monday had been "not definitive".

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Michel Bezuijen, mayor of the Haarlemmermeer municipality under which Schiphol airport falls, said the passenger list was being studied to establish the nationalities and identities of those on board.

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Now you can add passenger cars to the list of counterfeit goods.

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Each passenger is compared with a watch list of 293, 406 foreign nationals expelled for various reasons.

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But that will depend on persuading all EU countries to share passenger and crew list information - quite a number of them regard this as illegal under European free movement laws.

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Hindenburg, for instance, and even the torpedoing, just three years after the Titanic sank, of the Lusitania, another great liner whose passenger list boasted the rich and the famous, were calamities that shocked the world but have failed to generate an obsessive preoccupation.

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At the top of 'Stigmas' list this year is a 1969 Lamborghini Miura, including an attractive passenger.

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But on May's priorities list, the passenger-rights controversy falls well below another big-ticket item: the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration, whose programs expire next September.

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