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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.
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Whether or not they traveled during Christmas weekend, most people heard about the thousands of holiday travelers who were stranded when Comair&#39;s overloaded computers
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PHILADELPHIA As operations return to near-normal for US Airways, union leaders today are blaming the airline&#39;s Christmas meltdown on bad planning, not worker absences.
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A POTENTIAL flight attendants&#39; strike and record crowds at the nation&#39;s airports could combine to make travel the most cheerless aspect of this holiday season.
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A bizarre apology from the beleaguered toymaker makes it seem desperate heading into the holiday season.
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Air Madrid suspended all its flights today, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded over Christmas, a move the privately owned airline blamed on Spain's threat to suspend its flying licence.Comment
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Anne Maneikis has a problem with the holidays. She goes crazy. The rest of the year, she is perfectly sane. Thirty-seven and single, she works as an account executive for an advertising agency, managing budgets.
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By Scott McCartney  On Christmas Eve 2004, Comair Inc.'s overtaxed crew-scheduling computer system collapsed, forcing more than 1,000 flight cancellations and leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
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Corporate Airlines says it&#39;s contacting the families of people on board a commuter plane that crashed in northeastern Missouri.
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A BUDGET airline boss had to be rescued by police as a publicity stunt turned into a near riot.  Ryanair had promised free tickets to anyone turning up in Barcelona's Plaza de Catalunya with placards supporting them or knocking rivals Iberia.
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The confusing holiday weekend stretched into Monday for airline travelers, some of whom finally got off the ground while others remained stranded.
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At a time when the airlines are facing their most difficult challenges in recent history, they are running through one chief executive after another.
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One of the majors problems was that the discount airline couldn't handle rescheduling so many flight crews.
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The head of British Airways and top managers helped with passenger check-in Saturday as the airline sought recover from a week of chaos that stranded thousands of passengers.
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PHILADELPHIA Union leaders say it was poor planning by US Airways that caused canceled flights and misplaced bags over the holidays.
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US holiday travelers hoping to get back in the air after a weekend of flight cancellations due to computer malfunctions and staff shortages still faced difficulties getting to their destinations on Monday.
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First the air-conditioning didnât work. Then the flight was delayed. Finally, a passenger with a video camera began asking some tough questions.