It leads to some surreal flights of fantasy as Brand acts out scenarios suggested for him by apoplectic readers.
Delays piled up throughout Monday as the airlines, including US Airways, JetBlue and Delta, were forced to cancel some flights because of cutbacks.
The new rule to keep passengers in their seats in the final hour of some flights seems all too typical of arbitrary rules that inconvenience innocents but not terrorists.
Well, most of those flights have thinned out, and some of the domestic flights and those into Europe have been cancelled.
The town is arranged higgledypiggledy up a steep hill, with narrow flights of steps between streets, and it is rumoured that some of the flights are haunted by those witches who met their end in the flames.
The 210- to 290-seat planes are typically used for high-capacity flights, affecting many passengers on cross-country or cross-global flights, some of which were booked months in advance.
Frankfurt meanwhile was forced to close operations, leading to the cancellation of some 500 flights in the process.
The Japanese carrier has grounded all of its 17 Dreamliners for Wednesday and Thursday to allow for inspections, leading to the cancellation of some domestic flights.
The main airports are open, but some airlines have cancelled flights following days of heavy snowfall.
But recent research has shown that some wild birds' patterns of flights and stopovers during migrations, or moulting times, differ between El Nino and La Nina years.
And Wolfgang Clement, Mr Rau's successor as premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, where an election will be held in May, has been accused of taking some free flights too.
Because you made some reference to the security of cargo flights and so forth.
One of the cutbacks, he said, will be the reduction of food service on some flights and its elimination on others.
Some argue that the resumption of direct flights between the two countries, and the reinstatement of money transfers from Cuban-Americans to relatives here, simply revert the policy to where it was before February 1996.
We've spent the day trying to salvage some of the money we spent on flights, the hotel and travel insurance.
Many flights were canceled in Toronto, some of them because destination airports in the United States were closed by the snow.
Heathrow Airport said some 10% of the day's flights were expected to be cancelled, with "low visibility... forecast this evening".
Ms. ROBERTSON: Even though the weather had already passed through Atlanta and had some flights bumped back, my delay was because of Dallas weather delay.
The delay affected all three airlines that operate to and from the island and led to a number of flights being cancelled and some passengers being moved to other services.
Ran up the three flights of stairs to an office with some still remaining holiday lights and a plate of cookies.
Some 700 out of a total 1, 238 flights have been canceled so far, affecting roughly 7, 000 passengers, airport spokesman Christopher Holschier told CNN.
Adding to the problem was a blast of wintry weather Tuesday that snarled traffic, cancelled hundreds of flights and could have kept some voters home.
On average, 1, 500 out of some 22, 000 scheduled airline flights a day were held up, leaving 100, 000 passengers fuming in lounges or sweltering on the hot tarmac.
The low cost airline said last year that it was considering buying more aircraft, to replace some of its older planes or to expand flights into new areas.
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In some cases, Delta is reducing the number of flights per day but increasing the size of the plane, bucking conventional airline wisdom that held business travelers preferred schedules with very frequent flights.
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They also suffer from being so ubiquitous at big airports: Regional airlines have some of the worst on-time and baggage-handling records among airlines and highest rates of canceled flights.
"I'm not on some ego trip to enjoy the greatest number of space flights, " he told CNN.
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In Paris, some 300 flights from Charles de Gaulle airport - a quarter of the day's total - were cancelled, along with a similar proportion from Paris Orly.
For some airlines, longer scheduled times for flights reflects the reality of inefficiency in the nation's air travel system, which often can't handle the volume of planes without delay, especially when bad weather hits.
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