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From http://www.airwise.com/news/stories/99/03/02_y2k_apac_limits.html:

Pacific Air Traffic To Be Limited Over Jan 1, 2000 (Mar 2, 1999 )

Flights on major Asia-Pacific routes will be limited to one-third the usual volume from the evening of December 31 through January 1, 2000, according to the Japanese Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has decided to reduce the number of Asia-Pacific flights to head off possible problems resulting from the year 2000 computer bug. The ICAO hopes in this way to help airports maintain sufficient control over aviation in the event of computer or radar problems caused by the Y2K bug, the newspaper said. ICAO approved the plan at a meeting with aviation authorities from the Pacific region to discuss contingency measures February 26.

According to the Japanese Transport Ministry's Aviation Bureau, a total of 64 airways on Northern Pacific, Central Pacific, Oceania and Russian routes will be affected. Within each airway, aircraft ordinarily fly at four different altitudes, with intervals of 10 minutes between flights sharing the same altitude. But on New Year's Eve, planes will fly at two different altitudes and with intervals of 15 minutes between them.

Analysts say travelers could face significant delays or even xancellations of their flights, particularly on the heavily congested northern Pacific routes.



-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), March 05, 1999

Answers

Thanks Tom,

Maybe the new rollover slogan will just be ...

"Don't leave home..."

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), March 05, 1999.


Don't leave home could become an edict from our self-appointed 'gods'.

-- Watchful (seethesea@msn.com), March 05, 1999.

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