The children were "happy and sleepy" on a flight back to the U.S., sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said in an email.

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Leila Bulling Towne, an executive management coach, was happy to be on a nonstop flight home from a business meeting in Austin and liked the RJ practice of checking and retrieving carry-on bags at the jet-bridge, since regular roll-aboard bags don't fit in purse-sized overhead bins.

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Air transport is capital-intensive and cyclical, there's ease of entry, and pilots, machinists and flight attendants are militant and difficult to keep happy.

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Often, the airline staffer will be happy to take care of your request before everyone else storms the counter after the official announcement on your flight's status.

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However, he has this week insisted he is happy at Cardiff after distancing himself from a report accusing the club of pricing him out of a top-flight move.

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