For their part, the sons and daughters have all booked early flights out.
On early flights, hostesses plied passengers with free cocktails.
Previously, the emergency helicopter at Dunsfold was limited to daytime and early evening flights.
Once a night owl, Kate Suski no longer minds getting up early for flights, or for any other reason.
Many early morning flights were canceled Friday, but the airport's website schedule shows most flights going ahead as planned after noon.
Better yet, daily early morning flights to San Jose, two hours south of Sablayan by bus or air-con minivan, mean you can leave Manila in the morning and be diving on Apo Reef the same day.
Last month, at a protest against the possibility of expanding Heathrow, west London residents spoke of the noise from early-morning flights.
Also, airlines now tend to cancel flights early, in order to avoid inconveniencing passengers who may be able to avoid needless trips to the airport and also to have airplanes well-positioned to resume service as soon as a storm subsides.
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Branson's Virgin Galactic hopes to take paying passengers on three-hour suborbital flights by early 2009.
Russia will need a new rocket to get to Mars, though, and a new launch site to operate manned flights as early as in 2018.
Sebastian Mikosz, LOT's chief executive, told the PAP news agency that both of the carrier's 787s will resume commercial flights in early June, following repairs by the maker.
The executive has a point when there's more than 40 booked SpaceX flights so early into the Falcon program's history, although there's something left to prove when the first scheduled Dragon capsule launch ran into a non-critical engine failure.
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Monday's storm forced many East Coast schools to open late or close early, and hundreds of flights were canceled.
Three flights arriving in the early hours of Monday were targeted.
"Not all flights will operate during the early period of opening, and we will do everything we can to support airlines and get people moving, " a spokesman said.
In seconds, its Internet-browser-based agent negotiates deals that match your calendar (no morning flights, the software sees an early meeting that day in your Outlook calendar) and your likes (outdoor pool, bandwidth, that cool restaurant you booked before).
Early Tuesday, the Mexican and Chinese government sent chartered flights to each other's countries to pick up their respective nationals stranded or quarantined because of the global swine flu outbreak.
After setting a record mission rate of seven flights in 2009, launch attempts in the early months of this year experienced a series of frustrating postponements as engineers grappled with a faulty pressure regulator on the rocket's propellant system.
Get there early and give yourself plenty of time between transfers and connecting flights.
In the early days, airports were not adequately equipped to accommodate these flights, from limited airport staff to a lack of runway lighting to restrictions on noise, but with the increasing need to shuttle aircraft to their next route, seats were made available at deeply discounted rates for passengers willing to make the inconvenient trek.
When low-price awards were available, they often were for Tuesday or Wednesday flights, when travel is lighter, and often for very early morning departures or trips with inconvenient connections.
Early on Sunday morning around Beijing, major highways were closed temporarily and over 177 flights were cancelled due to poor visibility.
Experts say it is too early to suggest the cause of the crash but many believe it was in part due to the extra number of flights and pressure on resources at the small airport following several diversions from Las Palmas.
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