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Updated 5:15 AM ET September 28, 1999

(CHICAGO) -- The director of the Aviation Millenium Project says the industry is prepared to ground all its flights on New Year's Day. But Thomas Brown predicts that it will be business as usual, despite the Y-Two-K computer bug. As the new millennium approaches less than 100 days away, government and airline aviation experts are gathering for the first time in Chicago today to address industry-wide efforts to keep the bug from disrupting airline service nationwide. Brown says the industry's 102 airlines and more than 500 airports have collectively spent more than 700-Million-dollars to make their computer systems Y-Two-K compliant.

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I was just about to post this one!

Also,

KLM, Northwest to reduce flights around New Year's Eve (AP)

"KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and its American partner, Northwest Airlines, said Tuesday they plan to reduce the number of flights scheduled for New Year's Eve this year because of low demand.

KLM said it now has only five intercontinental flights scheduled for the millennium change, compared with 35 at the end of 1998. Northwest said it would cancel several flights.

Both airlines noted that travel during the holiday season as a whole was up from 1998 levels, with demand shifting to periods before Dec. 31 and after Jan. 1..."

-- pshannon (pshannon@inch.com), September 28, 1999.

I doubt if they will go so far as to shut down completely. BUT, they may go the KLM route and shut down a lot of flights...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 28, 1999.