Another airline to cancel flights. However, if I'm not mistaken, this is the first one to actually say that "...flights would be canceled or rescheduled to avoid potential problems arising from the year 2000 computer bug."

From Dow Jones:

Singapore Airlines To Cancel Some Flights Dec. 31

SINGAPORE -- Singapore Airlines Ltd. (P.SAL) said Tuesday that it will continue to operate flights to Australia and New Zealand on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, but that many other flights would be canceled or rescheduled to avoid potential problems arising from the year 2000 computer bug.

The services most affected are those that would normally be scheduled to be in the air at midnight Greenwich Mean Time on Dec. 31.

That includes flights serving Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia, as well as transatlantic services, Singapore Airlines said. These services will be either canceled that day or rescheduled.

On the other hand, most flights in Southeast Asia will operate according to normal schedules, as well as certain transpacific and north Asian services, the airline said.

Singapore Airlines said it has no reason to believe that any of the countries it serves will be affected by the Y2K computer bug. But it said it must be cautious because it doesn't have full information on all the countries over which its planes fly."

Also, as an aside, this brief piece from "SmartMoney" magazine. This is, in my mind, the epitome of the "Polly vs. Doomer" debate.

SmartMoney: Keeping Track -- Y2K Watch

This story appears in the October issue of SmartMoney magazine.

By Sara Garlick

Will you be able to get a cup of coffee in January 2000?

YES: "I simply don't feel that there is going to be any breakdown in the shipping process. As far as the coffee industry, I don't see a problem. As for the year 2000, there isn't going to be a spaceship from Mars that comes down to steal our coffee." -- Arthur Stevenson, commodities analyst

NO: "Shipping is a question that coffee importers have to deal with... There are 600,000 bags of coffee in warehouse stocks today -- it's a pretty small cushion. People I've talked to, even the Colombians, they all say, yes, this is a very big problem." -- David Griswold, president of Sustainable Harvests, a San Francisco Bay-area specialty coffee importer

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), September 21, 1999

Answers

Coffee won't be a problem for a couple of weeks...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 21, 1999.