IT'S LATE at night-coming up to 23:00-and we have just landed at Sal Amilcar Cabral Airport (SID) in Cabo Verde, the 10-island nation off the northwest coast of Africa. We have made a six-hour flight from Europe aboard one of Cabo Verde Airlines' (VR) Boeing 757-200s. While we are still deplaning, a team starts taking care of the airplane, everything from dumping the toilet tanks to refueling.
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