Anthony's soup kitchen, or tearfully spending their meager savings on plane flights home.
Flights over Europe were banned last month because of fears of the effect of volcanic ash on plane engines.
Still other families turn to it as a tool of last resort to entertain and appease children on plane and car trips.
Or you may be on a plane and either you watch what is showing on the plane or what you carry with you.
Clumsy fliers spilling Diet Coke and coffee on plane floors and seats, causing "gunked-up" seat-locking mechanisms, hardly seem to constitute a root cause.
With her seat safe on plane to Germany, Dobriskey, who won gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2006, is looking forward to competing at the highest level again.
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It seems that someone had reported one or more mosquitoes on the plane on an incoming flight, so the ground crew insisted on fumigating and the flight crew refused to fly a recently fumigated plane.
When Secretary Rice talked to us on the plane on the way to London she acknowledged that she was caught off guard by the very strong showing of Hamas.
On the plane on the way to South Africa for his operation, he found an iPod someone had left behind in the back of the seat in front of him.
Najib Hashimi, 18, who has been in the UK since 2009 and lived with a foster family in Kent, was due to have been put on a plane on Monday night.
Three people on the plane that landed on a fairway while stunned golfers looked on had minor injuries.
Distractions, such as having someone to talk to on the plane or focusing on an engrossing book, can also work to ease the tension.
Is he not troubled that the first layer was a pass through, that the suspect got on the plane despite being on the list?
Tuesday night's crash, Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year, killed all 186 people on the plane and three others on the ground.
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"They were able to get their man on an American plane on an American soil so it is successful by all means, " said Mustafa Al-Ani at the Gulf Research Center.
When I was on a plane recently, you know, I just looked in to see who was flying the plane as I got on board, and there were three women in the cockpit.
Police and federal agents greeted US Airways Flight 192 as it landed at Sky Harbor Airport after passengers reported two men on the plane were acting suspiciously on the trip from Orlando, Florida.
For excitement it may not have matched the Samuel L Jackson film, Snakes On A Plane, but passengers on a Qantas flight watched with fascination as one snake fought out its own drama.
Elsewhere, Wigan's Steve Gohouri has sealed his place on the plane after missing out on Angola, while Hibernian's Sol Bamba, who scored in Les Elephants' 2-2 draw with Paraguay in France this week, is among the defenders travelling.
Complex numbers, which have a real and an imaginary part added together, are the points on this plane that do not lie on either axis.
The Information Ministry initially identified the fatalities as three Myanmar citizens: a tour guide and an 11-year-old child on board the plane, and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.
The thing was so huge and ostentatious, people on the plane back home were congratulating me on becoming a new wife!
But out of a job in a tough economy, she got on a plane to Honduras for 10 months on a religious mission.
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"Eating on a plane is not the same as eating on the ground, " says Jones.
Another option: bag matching, meant to ensure that no luggage goes on a plane unless the passenger who checked it is on board.
Landel, then general manager for eastern Africa at Sodexho Alliance, hopped on a plane to Nairobi, where he loaded up on a week's supply of frozen meat and fish.
"I'm really proud to be captain of a bunch of lads who have jumped on a plane to come here and played with smiles on their faces, " said Pietersen.
As interior minister, Mr Sarkozy played the tough guy: putting illegal immigrants on the plane home, evacuating clandestine squats and clamping down on prostitution.
Helen Abel, a solicitor from East Finchley in north London, was stuck at Heathrow on a plane bound for Sri Lanka for almost 11 hours on Saturday.
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