I STOPPED counting the number of flight cancellations in February at around 25,000. Just in the first two weeks of the month, 13,000 flights were scrubbed - that alone was the biggest disruption to the air travel system since 9/11.Why the airlines pre-emptively canceled so many flights as bad weather loomed on the East Coast is an issue for another time. What it meant, though, was that a lot of business travelers had to struggle to rebook seats or make new reservations in a system that has no slack whatsoever because airlines have been steadily reducing capacity in recent years to cut costs.
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