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More flights were canceled on Sunday, following thousands of other air travel cancellations and delays at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend. About 1,065 flights were canceled on Sunday, with 283 of those cancellations in the U.S., according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. More than 7,000 other flights were delayed, including 1,109 in the U.S. On Saturday, more than 1,500 flights were canceled, which followed the cancelation of more than 2,300 flights on Friday. Delta Air Lines canceled 148 flights on Sunday, or about 5 percent of its flights for the day. The airline told The Associated Press on...

The Associated Press 2/2/04 7:13 PM WASHINGTON (AP) -- Terror threats that led to cancellation of one domestic and six trans-Atlantic flights have passed, and the government has no plans to ground more planes, officials said Monday. No arrests were made nor weapons seized in relation to the cancellations, and law enforcement officials acknowledged they are unsure whether the steps taken disrupted attacks. But Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and other Bush administration officials said the cancellations were warranted because of the "specific information on when and what flights" the al-Qaida organization had planned to target. "We didn't quite have...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 — Foreign and domestic airlines canceled six flights from Europe to the United States on Saturday after American officials raised concerns about the possibility of terrorist attacks, including hijackings. The concerns prompted the American officials to urge that armed sky marshals be placed on those routes; instead, the British and French airlines canceled the flights. American intelligence officials said that in recent days they had developed what they considered to be "specific and credible" information about the prospect of Al Qaeda or related terrorist groups trying to seize an international airliner. The groundings revived the trans-Atlantic anxieties...