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WiFi Wednesday: Nepotism Edition

Last month, we told you about Kansas City International's free WiFi. How do the airports across the state stack up? Not well, it turns out. As far as we know, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport only has WiFi in the American Airlines Admirals Club between concourses C and D. Even then, you'll need T-Mobile's HotSpot service to connect. Yikes.

Of course, none of this should surprise us considering STL's history. It was for many years the main hub of TWA--the folks who pioneered the frequently infuriating hub model of airline transportation. More recently, the brother of St. Louis's mayor became deputy director of the airfield--and allegedly proceeded to get embroiled in a records-falsifying scandal that stranded thousands of passengers after a power outage. Mayor Slay has some details, but of course leaves out the fact his brother was in charge. Guess we're still waiting on that promised WiFi, then, mayor?

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