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Fake Airline Has Philly Giggling

'Derrie-Air' vowed to charge passengers by the pound

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 6, 2008 7:44 PM CDT

(Newser) – An ad for "Derrie-Air" airlines made Philadelphia readers the butt of a publicity joke today, the AP reports. The owner of two newspapers and an ad agency revealed that the airline—which claimed to charge passengers by weight, and be carbon-neutral—was cooked up... Read full story »

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