After a pretty arduous day which involved getting up at 3:45 to be on a 5amish flight from Juneau to Seattle but also being at Denver International late in the day (Denver was one of the airports with the most cancelled flights) Natalie made it home, albeit at around 1am. All good.
The press has made a big deal out of how many flights have been cancelled. The Journal for instance this morning trumpeted the fact that 6,000 flights had been cancelled since Wednesday.
But how many flights are there each day in the United States. Google tells me that there are about 100,000 of them, so 6,000 over three days is about 2%. The fact that a lot of these flights were out of specific airports (Denver and O'Hare, so probably also Midway) makes for some good photo ops. But it doesn't mean that the actual scale of disruption has been so awful. As always, if it bleeds it leads, and the business of American media is corralling eyeballs, attracting attention above all else.
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