In one of international aviation's biggest jams yet, tens of thousands of passengers were stranded for up to five days at Europe's airports last week. Many Americans traveling to Europe on cut-rate flights found that there were not enough bargain seats to accommodate the heavy crush heading home. Others were held up by a slowdown of 2,500 French air traffic controllers. Their action snarled traffic across Europe, but the worst congestion was in Britain and France:
BRITAIN The British press dubbed them the "Terminal Children." Thousands of North Americans waited for up to a week at Heathrow and Gatwick airports to get...
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