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Kudos for TACA

I would like for people to know how nice the airline Grupo TACA is.

I was scheduled to go to San José, Costa Rica, on Sept. 4, ’05, for a couple weeks. I live in Slidell, Louisiana, which was very hard hit by Hurricane Katrina. TACA readily agreed to refund the full amount of my ticket.

LAUREL FREID
Slidell, LA

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