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...RUSSIA Seal Cubs Face Mass Starvation Freak weather has stranded hundreds of thousands of baby seals on ice floes in the White Sea. Russian scientists said that unusually strong winds had prevented up to 200,000 baby harp, or Greenland, seals from floating to their normal feeding grounds in the Barents Sea. "Their mass death from hunger is inevitable," said a Polar Institute scientist, adding that even if some cubs could be saved, no money was available for their rescue...
...these teleconferences that decide what airports will have to stop all traffic (and for how long), who gets delayed, and how many airplanes get the chance to take off on time. Carriers can - and do - use these calls to argue to allow their planes to fly through weather rather than around it (which causes delays and even more congestion...
...individual airlines use the conclusion agreed to from each call to decide which flights to cancel or delay. Since weather accounts for a whopping 65 per cent of all delays (and in 2000, one in four flights was delayed), a Command Center conference call can make the difference between you over-nighting on a cot in Chicago or alternatively, enjoying your summer vacation in that exclusive resort you booked months...
...example, one big achievement is instead of using competing and contradictory information, now the airlines and the FAA use the exact same weather predication map. Another: there is a "National Playbook," which, much like a NFL version, sketches out in precise detail how players will react to certain situations - only the participants are airplanes, and they maneuver around thunderstorms, not 350-lb. defensive linemen...
...Most likely, it's that there's still too little too tarmac out there for too many flights. Or it's the weather...