Earlier a spokeswoman from East Coast Trains said it was "very sorry" for what happened to the stranded passengers.
BBC: Major delays on London and Peterborough East Coast line
The firm was subsequently strongly criticised by an independent review which said its contingency plans for helping stranded passengers were "insufficient".
British Airways is to make a decision later on whether it will operate flights to bring back stranded passengers from Tunis.
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American is offering free reservation changes and refunds for stranded passengers.
Authorities have distributed water bottles and sleeping bags to stranded passengers.
JetBlue pointed to icy conditions and the backlog of stranded passengers and flight crews from Wednesday's cancellations as a major cause of Friday's additional flight cuts.
In the United Kingdom, mobs of stranded passengers have begun to thin out, but people are still struggling to repack checked luggage after security officials banned all carry-on bags.
Sleeping mats, blankets, catering facilities and hot drinks are being provided for stranded passengers at Heathrow, but there are fears that some people will not get a flight before Christmas.
The chaos at Heathrow has had a knock-on effect in other international hubs, where stranded passengers began to accept the possibility of not being with their loved ones over the Christmas period.
One of the stranded passengers, who was on his way to Edinburgh, said the 50-mile journey from Brighton to St Pancras took an hour and a half longer than the 330-mile London-to-Edinburgh stretch.
These numbers are made up for demonstration purposes, but whenever an airline cancels a flight that they are not obligated to incur costs for in terms of stranded passengers, and flies them later on existing flights, they reduce their operating costs while still capturing the revenue.
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And it cannot start until it arrives, so if you have a very good idea when it will arrive, common sense might suggest an optimum strategy would be to get as many people to where they need to go as you can, rather than adding thousands to what you expect to be an already impressive number of stranded passengers.
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The first flights for passengers stranded on cruise ship Dream will begin Friday at 9 a.m.
While in the army, he directed the dramatic rescue of passengers stranded in a disabled cable car.
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On the evening when the heavens opened, few taxi drivers went on duty, leaving passengers stranded across the city.
For example, by keeping a few extra planes on hand a carrier could accommodate passengers stranded by other airlines following a blizzard.
Monday morning saw travel chaos engulf the region, with thousands of passengers stranded when train services were disrupted in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
With frequent bad weather during the winter, Philadelphia International Airport is among the East Coast airports known for long delays that leave passengers stranded.
This decision could potentially leave tens of thousands of passengers stranded.
JetBlue , the airline that once notoriously left passengers stranded for more than 10 hours during a snow storm, has actually announced some good news today.
Virgin said it would maintain its current flight capacities for several weeks, until it cleared the backlog of passengers stranded while transatlantic flights were grounded last week.
It is thought many of the passengers stranded overnight had been to the Arsenal's Champions League game against Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium in north London.
BBC: Major delays on London and Peterborough East Coast line
Olympia Snow, R-Maine, wants slipped into the bill a "Passenger Bill of Rights" which would allow passengers stranded on runways for at least three hours to get off the plane if they wish.
That follows several high-profile fiascoes where a lack of coordination between airports, airlines and the FAA along with shortages of manpower, equipment, gates and food left passengers stranded aboard planes in horrid conditions.
President Bush ordered steps on Thursday to reduce the long delays at airports ahead of the holiday season, hoping to ease air traffic congestion that has increasingly angered travelers and left many passengers stranded at airports.
On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting "a comprehensive review" of all of its 23 ships after a fire last month that crippled one of its ships in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving passengers stranded for days while the vessel was towed back to land.
On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting "a comprehensive review" of all of its 23 ships following a fire last month crippled one of its ships in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving passengers stranded for days while the ship inched its way back to land.
Frankfurt airport had to cancel more flights on Wednesday, after hundreds of passengers remained stranded overnight.
Thousands of passengers were stranded this morning after authorities grounded flights to and from Europe.
At the time, thousands of passengers were stranded at airports around the world after Qantas ordered the grounding of 447 flights.
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