New Year's flights keep dwindlinggreenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
About 600 planes would
have landed or taken off at
PDX during the 12 hours on
either side of midnight Dec.
31. But this year's
stay-at-home crowd has led
12 of the airport's 16
passenger airlines to cancel
flights for lack of interest --
about 150 cancellations in
all.Moreover, the number
keeps increasing, Roberts
said.Oregonian
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 24, 1999
No one can fly because the flights are cancelled because no one will fly.Nice circular logic.
"No one goes there anymore -- it's too crowded." -- C. Stengle
-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 24, 1999.
Since planes are favorite targets of terrorists, even DGIs would not want to fly if they had a brain!
-- morgan (bitbybit@eoni.com), December 24, 1999.
I think that's actually Yogi Berra, Ron.
-- Yogi (yogi@said.it), December 24, 1999.
An excellent strategy: No planes will fall out of the sky if no planes are IN the sky.BRILLIANT!!!
Land Lubber Kook
-- Y2Kook (y2kook@usa.net), December 24, 1999.
Zimbabwe airline cancels millennium flightMalaysia Airlines to cancel 18 more flights for millennium rollover
Argentine airlines keep to the ground New Year's Eve
-- spider (spider0@usa.net), December 24, 1999.