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

Answers

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 flight

Malaysia 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.