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Adventures of Link: Wall Street Meltdown Good for Airlines

So today's cataclysmic Wall Street meltdown wasn't really that bad. Of course, there's still plenty of turmoil in the financial markets--and who knows what could happen tomorrow!

But at least one sorry bunch of losers managed to have a good day: Airline stocks as a whole were actually up today. (Most that lost value did better than the market at large.) We're not stock brokers, but $94-a-barrel oil has got to be part of the reason why.

Maybe now that its stock price is going back up, United can cut back on baggage fees? Nah!

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