One or more ground stations communicate with {HEAD ~ the plurality} of commercial aircraft using feeder communications links exchanging the wireless communication traffic and {TAIL ~ control information} and providing interfaces with a terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure 
One or more ground stations communicate with { HEAD ~ the plurality } of commercial aircraft using feeder communications links exchanging the wireless communication traffic and { TAIL ~ control information } and providing interfaces with a terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure
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