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From: svkakkad@cs.utexas.edu (Sheetal V. Kakkad)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: Help on ticket to India
Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:47:22 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: usa
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Keywords: Delta, India


I am making plans for a trip to India over the Christmas holidays.

I purchased a discounted ticket on Delta Airlines from Elias Travel
Service in Denver. The ticket was issued by Magic Carpet Travel in La
Grande, OR. I went to the airport to verify the ticket and the Delta
ticket agent told me that the fare basis/ticket designator as
mentioned on the ticket is not valid for travel to India (and hence
the ticket is invalid).

I spoke with the travel agent (in Oregon) and according to him, I
should have checked with him first for any questions before checking
with Delta (sounds fishy, doesn't it?). Also, he asked me to send the
ticket back to him and that he will correct it and send it back. I
don't want to send the ticket to him because then I will not have any
proof in hand (except maybe a photocopy of the ticket).

Does anyone have any advice about what I should do or what recourse I
have? (Note that I paid by credit card, and so I can refuse payment,
but that would mean cancelling my trip).

Thanks in advance,

Sheetal (svkakkad@cs.utexas.edu)
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From: edelheit@smiley.mitre.org (Jeff Edelheit)
Subject: Re: Preferences: Heathrow (LHR) or Gatwick (LGW)?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:36:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.221641.25270@news.mentorg.com> philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:
>
>The other problem with the London Underground is that they have strange
>schemes for finding the appropriate train - some lines share sections
>of track and stations, so you can't just get onto a train going the
>right way. You have to look at the signs, which have some apparently
>random word displayed - is this the name of the train ? the name
>of its driver ? some olde English curse ? study it, and after
>some excessivly long period you will find out the reasonong (Ha !)
>behind it  - anyway, you have to match this piece of gobeldygook
>with what is written on the front of the incoming train, as it passes you
>at 60 mph. - obviously, to make life more interesting, the older trains
>have this in a badly lit box, newer trains have matrix displays with
>about 20% of the cells permanently off, and 20% permanently on.
>
>Philip
>
>PS - in case you hadn't guessed, travelling through London
>     (as opposed to London airports) is NOT one of my favourite
>     pastimes.
>

Virtually all of the Underground stations in central London have
displays which state when the next train is arriving and what it's
destination is.  (Actually it is a 2 line display and shows the next
two trains.  Sometimes the display "rolls-over" and shows the next
three trains.)  Most of the other stations I have been at have fixed
displays that say where the next train is going.

All-in-all, the Underground isn't that bad.

Jeff 
minutes.  The display shows the tra


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From: jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis)
Subject: Re: Preferences: Heathrow (LHR) or Gatwick (LGW)?
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:28:43 GMT

philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake) writes:

>It used to be that getting to Gatwick by train was a pain - you
>basically have to take a commuter train, which is small, dirty
>and slow - stopping at every god-forsaken hole in the SW of
>England (really ideal for American tourists, and an excelent
>introduction to British Rail). Things may have changed in the last
>few years (?).

   I took the London/Gatwick train five or six months ago.  It was a
high-speed express which left every fifteen minutes and got to Gatwick
with few or no stops in almost exactly one half hour -- in other words,
it compared favorably to taking the tube in from Heathrow.

   I personally liked Gatwick a lot better than Heathrow.  Less crowded,
and really easier of access to London in spite of being farther away. 
Xref: sparky rec.travel.air:5677 soc.culture.china:30623
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:10:16 EST
From: <XXW101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air,soc.culture.china
Subject: Best Deal to Fly from New York to Shanghai

    Could anyone please provide me some information about the most economic

  price for an air ticket from New York to Shanghai. The Departure date is

  on Dec.15, and return on Jan. 12, 93.   Please send me an e-mail.

   Thank you very much in advance!


  Xinli Wu @PennState
From: john@newave.newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: Re: American, Northwest, USAir rumours
Date: 22 Nov 92 02:08:20 GMT
Organization: Newave Communications, Ltd, Lake Wobegon, MN

In <1992Nov19.064855.11100@wuecl.wustl.edu> gl1@cec2.wustl.edu (Greg Lyon):
> There are also rumors that NW will be filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
> protection if they are unable to secure additional credit quickly.

Northwest has been involved in a very heated public relations war with its
unions.  NW wanted $300-million in concessions.  Their angle was to make NW
sound like it was on the verge of closing down in order to get the union to
vote their way.

Now that the unions have agreed to concessions worth $300-million per year,
a number of other players have stepped in with cash for NW.  So far, the
number is nearing a billion dollars in cash, additional investments, and
loan garantees.

-john-

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From: scholl@uvmark.uucp (Kathryn Scholl)
Subject: Re: TWA Status
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 16:17:06 GMT
Organization: VMARK Software, Inc.

In article babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan) writes:
>
>If TWA goes out of business, and some other airline takes over the route
>that you are to travel on, it is possible (but I believe up to the new
>airline) that your TWA ticket will be honoured by the airline that
>takes over.  If no airline buys the route from TWA, then you are basically
>in a fix.  
>

But what about frequent flyer miles?


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From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
Subject: Re: united frequent flyer International
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:35:47 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

In article <92320.184408X42529@BARILVM.BITNET>, X42529@BARILVM.BITNET (Shlomo) writes:
|> As a member of united's FF program (an international member, serviced by
|> 
|>  their international desk), I was told by United that I can only earn flights
|>  on partner airlines if the flight originated in the U.S.
|> If I'm not in the U.S. how can any flight I take ever be from there?
|> 
|> how can I ever earn mileage? (United doesn't fly here, so I'd have to take a
|>  partner airline).
|> 
|> If you must originate in the U.S., why do they bother having an international
|>  program?

This is total garbage, I (currently) have 21 5000 mile award
certificates, and two "fly one, get one free" certificates.

Almost none of this travel originated in the US.

Philip
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From: edelheit@smiley.mitre.org (Jeff Edelheit)
Subject: Re: Preferences: Heathrow (LHR) or Gatwick (LGW)?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:24:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.103031.26744@rdg.dec.com> western@rdg.dec.com (Jennifer Western) writes:
>
>   I must admit, though, I do live only about fifteen minutes away near
>   Kew Gardens, so it's much more convenient for me than Gatwick.  Kew
>   is right in the incoming flight path, so most days I'm aroused at 
>   4:45 AM with the first of a continuous stream of 747's.
>
Seeing how LHR has a 6:00 AM curfew, I'm suprised that you are aroused at
4:45 am by the first 747 arriving.  (I once had a delay in the
departure of an American Airlines flight to LHR because of high tail
winds.  (We were scheduled for a 6:30 PM JFK departure, arriving at
6:15 am.  AA held our departure for 1 hr and we arrived on time!)

Jeff Edelheit		email:  edelheit@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation	voice:  (703) 883-7586
7525 Colshire Drive	FAX:	(703) 883-1397
McLean, VA   22102
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
Subject: Re: TWAs Status
Organization: The Evil Fascist IRC Admins From Hell, Inc.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:27:48 GMT

Daffy> == Daffy Duck <gurd@next04wor.wam.umd.edu> 

 Daffy> TWA will likely NOT be out of business at least for the next
 Daffy> year or so.  The airline is about to emerge from bankruptcy,
 Daffy> where the unions and creditors will own the airline.  Unsecured
 Daffy> creditors will be paid only pennies on the dollar taking a lot
 Daffy> of the debt load off the company, secured creditors will get
 Daffy> most of thei back.  They plan to downsize returning some L1011s
 Daffy> and 747s they are leasing and cutting flights and destinations.
 Daffy> Their new management has also indicated they will no longer cut
 Daffy> fares just to fill planes, although they will contine to
 Daffy> undercut other airlines on fares BUSINESS travellers use (i.e.
 Daffy> no Saturday night stay required) if you fly throught their St.
 Daffy> Louis or JFK (New York) hubs.

Yeah, but this doesn't change one of TWA's underlying problems: their
equipment is mostly older stuff. Come 1995 they won't, unless a miracle
happens, be meeting the federal "50% of all aircraft must be stage 3"
mandate. They'll either have to spend billions on new aircraft or
millions on hush kits for engines. 

--Helen
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Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 16:01:50 MST
From: <ARHJB@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL TIPS?

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY NEW ZEALAND TRAVEL TIPS TO SHARE?
arhjb@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
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From: venkatap@willis.cis.uab.edu (Chandrasekaran Venkatapathy)
Subject: *******Info Needed********
Organization: Comp. Science Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:34:59 GMT

Hi there,

	I am planning to go to India in Jan.  I contacted a
	Travel Agent and he told me that he has made a confirmed
	booking. I contacted the Airlines to find out the veracity
	of this;The Airlines say that they have no record in my name.

	I would like to know whether Travel agents  always block
	the tickets against  the traveller's name  or they have different
	sort of a scheme. 

	Any help would be greatly appreciated . Because I plan 
	to buy the tickets shortly.

	- Chandra V.
From: jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: Re: TWAs Status
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:02:19 GMT
Organization: Investment Management Services Inc., NYC

Helen Trillian Rose <hrose@eff.org> writes:

	Yeah, but this doesn't change one of TWA's underlying problems:
	their equipment is mostly older stuff. Come 1995 they won't,
	unless a miracle happens ...

Well, most of the "problem aircraft" will be moved to overseas routes.
They already moved all their 747-131s off domestic routings.  You don't
have to meet that requirement if you are coming in from a foreign
country (witness that fact that plenty of airlines fly 707s into JFK
each day).

Also, TWA has a big order of A320s coming in starting early next year.
No, they didn't buy them ... it's been years since they bought
aircraft.  They lease them.  The problem DC9s will go away (probably
back to the leasing companies) and maybe a few of the 727s.

It'll be fine.

/jordan
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From: boarjas@elof.iit.edu (Jason Boardman)
Subject: Where to stay?
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:44:50 GMT



I am planning on flying to London sometime soon just as
an exploration trip.  From there I want to go straight 
to Scotland by train or bus.  The question is...where
can a student stay for cheap?  I have heard about 
hostels over there, what are they?  Where are they?
How do I find them?  I plan on spending 6 or 7 days
total...while moving around quite a bit.  Please
advise on what I should look into.  Thanks in 
advance! 

Jason Boardman
boarjas@elof.iit.edu

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From: western@rdg.dec.com (Jennifer Western)
Subject: Re: Preferences: Heathrow (LHR) or Gatwick (LGW)?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:30:31 GMT

In article <HROSE.92Nov13190133@rocza.eff.org> hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose) writes:

>Anyone have any strong feelings one way or another?


   Definitely Heathrow.  It's such an exciting airport and extremely
   well-run.  I've flown out of there dozens of times and have yet
   to encounter any typical airport hassles.  Whenever I fly in to
   Seattle (I'm from there), I'm always struck by how quiet it is.

   I must admit, though, I do live only about fifteen minutes away near
   Kew Gardens, so it's much more convenient for me than Gatwick.  Kew
   is right in the incoming flight path, so most days I'm aroused at 
   4:45 AM with the first of a continuous stream of 747's.

   Re: Terminal 4, it handles all BA's intercontinental flights, plus those
   to Amsterdam, Athens and Paris.  Also, KLM and Air Malta.




   Jennifer
   


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From: rdd@cactus.org (Robert Dorsett)
Subject: Re: Abbreviation for air[lines]
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 08:32:40 GMT

In article <1en8tbINNdo5@bigboote.WPI.EDU> babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan) writes:
>In article bobbyr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Bobby Richardson) writes:
>>I wonder if someone can tel me what the following abbreviations of airlines:
>{list deleted}
>
>	Well here are the ones I know off the top of my head, perhaps
>	others (Mr. Deepak Gianchandani?) can fill in the gaps.
>
>AA,	American Airlines 
>AI,	Air India 
>AY,    Finnair
>AZ,	Alitalia 
>BA,	British Airways
>CI,    China Airlines
>CO,	Continental 
>CP,	maybe Canadian Pacific
>CX, 	maybe Cathay Pacific
>DL, 	Delta
>JD,    Japan Air System
>JL, 	maybe Japan Airlines
>KE,    Korean Air
>KL, 	KLM
>LH, 	Lufthansa
>NH, 	All Nippon Airways
>NW,	Northwest
>OZ,	*
>PR, 	Philippine Airlines
>RG, 	VARIG
>RJ, 	Royal Jordanian (Alia)
>SK, 	SAS
>SQ, 	Singapore Airlines
>SR, 	maybe Swissair
>SV, 	Saudia
>TG, 	Thai
>TW, 	TWA
>UA, 	United
>US, 	USAir
>VP	VASP

OZ wasn't in my list (no, it's not Qantas).

Source: Pratt & Whitney vest-pocket handbook.


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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Abbreviation for air[lines]
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:54:16 GMT

Roger> == Roger Haaheim <rog@hpscit.sc.hp.com> 

 Roger> OZ = Ozark

Nope; it *was* ZK.  Now it just plain isn't (well, okay, it's part of TWA).

OZ is Asiana, a South Korean carrier with spiffy gray livery and an
all-Boeing fleet.
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From: yingmin@eng.umd.edu (Ying-Min Huang)
Subject: Re: 2  United Airlines Award Checks (20,000 miles) for sale
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 05:27:30 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: yingmin@vlsi16.src.umd.edu


Regarding to my previous post, I made a mistake to describe
20,000 miles award as 2  United Airlines Award Checks.
Actually, it's  a 4-Award-Check coupon.

Each 2 coupons = 1 one-way ticket.
So, 4 coupons = 2 one-way tickets.
YOu can make 2  one-way as a round trip ticket.
There are some breakout dates. Excepted breakout dates,
you can fly any time as soon as you have made reservations.


I like to sale it for $350  or best offer.
If you are interested in it, please e-mail me to yingmin@src.umd.edu.
Thank you.
From: maechan@ccl.umist.ac.uk (MAEDA Toshiyuki)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: Re: Transportation from Tokyo to Narita?
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:06:33 GMT
Organization: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology


 Hello, I suppose there will be many follows... (it is a kind of FAQ?)

>> On 13 Nov 92 20:02:02 GMT
>> eric@gecko.uucp (Eric Peterson) ( as "eric" ) said:
eric> 	Tokyo Station.  I seem to remember (from 5 years ago) that there was a
eric> 	bus that went to the airport regularly; if anyone knows more about the
eric> 	easiest/fastest method to get to Narita from Tokyo station, I'd
eric> 	appreciate it.

 For a few years (?), "Narita-Express" is available, which bounds from
Tokyo-Station directly to Narita-Airport (the station is just
under-ground of the airport) for about 1 hour. You can, and are
recommended to, reserve the train which you plan to get on. (See JR's
timetable. I have not used this train, so I am not sure...)

Hope this is helpful.
--
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  Centre for Computational Linguistics,
  The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, U.K.
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
From: philip@mentorg.com (Philip Peake)
Subject: Re: Preferences: Heathrow (LHR) or Gatwick (LGW)?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:16:41 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

In article <HROSE.92Nov13190133@rocza.eff.org>, hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose) writes:
...
|> Heathrow: 15miles west of London right off of the M4. Easy accessibility
|> from London (The London Underground runs straight to Heathrow). 
|> 
|> Gatwick: 25miles south of London outside of the evil thing they call the
|> M25. British Rail connectivity to London.
|> 
|> Heathrow: Big. Large. Huge. Incredibly humungous. Four terminals (and a
|> fifth is planned) packed to the gills by widebody after widebody.
|> British Airways maintains most (all?) of Terminal 4 (the newest
|> terminal) for its international (including Concorde) operations. 
|> 
|> Gatwick: Smaller. Two terminals ("North", "South") with bad connectivity
|> between the two. There is no "main carrier" here. Most US carriers fly
|> out of Gatwick, since you practically have to sell your soul to get
|> spots in Heathrow. 
....
|> Anyone have any strong feelings one way or another?

Not strong feelings ... its some time since I used Gatwick,
but if you have the time, it is maybe a more friendly airport.
If you want efficiency and speed, go to Heathrow.

Gatwick tends to get full of sweaty tourists in the summer
months, sinc elots of package tours use it - although these
are being "persuaded" to move to other airports (Stanstead
and Luton) and take their sweaty hordes with them ...

It used to be that getting to Gatwick by train was a pain - you
basically have to take a commuter train, which is small, dirty
and slow - stopping at every god-forsaken hole in the SW of
England (really ideal for American tourists, and an excelent
introduction to British Rail). Things may have changed in the last
few years (?).

Rail connectivity with Heathrow is a little better - there is an
underground line which goes there, which means that the 25 mile trip
into London can take 45 minutes to an hour - again stopping at every
god-forsaken-hole-in-the-ground (this is the underground:-) that
you wish that you had never heard of.

The other problem with the London Underground is that they have strange
schemes for finding the appropriate train - some lines share sections
of track and stations, so you can't just get onto a train going the
right way. You have to look at the signs, which have some apparently
random word displayed - is this the name of the train ? the name
of its driver ? some olde English curse ? study it, and after
some excessivly long period you will find out the reasonong (Ha !)
behind it  - anyway, you have to match this piece of gobeldygook
with what is written on the front of the incoming train, as it passes you
at 60 mph. - obviously, to make life more interesting, the older trains
have this in a badly lit box, newer trains have matrix displays with
about 20% of the cells permanently off, and 20% permanently on.

Philip

PS - in case you hadn't guessed, travelling through London
     (as opposed to London airports) is NOT one of my favourite
     pastimes.

P.
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From: mendes@banjo.cs.uiuc.edu (Celso Luiz Mendes)
Subject: Re: Abbreviation for air
Organization: Picasso Group, DCS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:42:01 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.181127.28165@athena.mit.edu>, djablon@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J. Jablonski) writes:
|> In article <knauer.722420119@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> knauer@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase) writes:
|> >In <1en8tbINNdo5@bigboote.WPI.EDU> babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan) writes:
|> VASP (I don't know what this is, I just checked the OAG...

VASP means Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo, an airline from Brazil.

|> 
|> >Rob
|> >--
|> Dan
|> 

-Celso

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From: aclark@53iss5.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Allen Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Subject: AC and CO
Date: 19 Nov 92 22:42:49 GMT
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA

Does anyone have any insight into the Air Canada - Continental
situation?  Is there any word on if and when their FF programs will
form an agreement like United & AC?

Regards,
allen.clark@waterloo.ncr.com

--
From: Thomas Levitan <tlevitan@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: rec.travel.air
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:14 PST
Subject: Re: N.W. Fly Write Question
Nf-ID: #R:ucdavis.ucdavis.edu:19396:cdp:1644500012:000:137
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tlevitan    Nov 19 21:14:00 1992


Jeffrey
Thats how it works.  The FlyWrite is the ticket, unless you are
exchanging several for international travel.
Enjoy the trip.
Tom

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From: kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester)
Subject: Re: Help on using United Airline credit coupons
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:34:40 GMT


>->  I have 4 United Airline credit coupons each of which has a $87.5
>->value (total $350) that I gained in an overbooked flight.  I have some
>->questions regarding these coupons.  Your answer would be highly
>->appreciated.
>->
>->(1) Do I have to buy tickets from United Airline directly or can I deal
>->with travel agent?  What if I buy tickets from travel agent by mail?

You can buy from travel agent

>->(2) Are these coupons good for published discount rate such as staying
>->over Saturday night or non-refundable tickets?

yes 

>->(3) Are the coupons limited to domestic fights?

Don't remember. Probably not

>->(4) Any limitation for the transfer to family members or friends?

I used mine for family members with no problem. There may be some restriction
such as you having to be there to pick up the ticket (to keep you from selling
the coupons), but I'm not sure.

The main restriction is that you have to use them within one year of issue.
Note that the tickets you get with the coupons are valid up to a year also
(from the date you get the tickets). So you could exchange the coupons for
tickets 11 months after getting them, but for a flight 11 months after that.
I had coupons that expired in August. I cashed them in (in August) for tickets
for this December.

Note to other posters (you know who you are!): the fine print on the back of
the coupons really is confusing.

Hope this helps!

Dan Kester
kester@mte.ncsu.edu
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