Monday morning saw travel chaos engulf the region, with thousands of passengers stranded when train services were disrupted in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.

BBC: Power cut causes major disruption in northern India

This decision could potentially leave tens of thousands of passengers stranded.

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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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Thousands of passengers were stranded this morning after authorities grounded flights to and from Europe.

NPR: The Scene at London's Heathrow Airport

Thousands of passengers were stranded and hundreds had to sleep in the terminals after the west London airport closed its runways on Saturday.

BBC: Planes taking off from Heathrow Airport

Thousands of passengers were left stranded at the airport as 4, 000 flights were cancelled over five days for heavy snow before Christmas.

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Well, in practical terms, I think it means that thousands of passengers, who've been stranded in Britain for the past five days, can go home.

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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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