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April 22, 2004
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By Kathleen Vereen Dayton, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 22--Robert Brooks, chairman of Hooters Air and Pace Airlines, has invested $1 million in a Charlotte, N.C.-based holding company that primarily deals in travel services.

Brooks made the investment in RCG Companies, Inc., and accepted a position on its board of directors.

One of RCG's subsidiaries is jl FlightServ, the parent company of Vacation Express, a vacation charter company which flies between Myrtle Beach and Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Officials said there have been no talk of merging Vacation Express and Hooters Air, though a ...

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