✈Aviation

at least 275 flights already cancelled on a holiday weekend, with three more boards to buffer

The cancellation has already happened; the rebuild is the work. Eastern Japan pulled at least 275 flights — 120 domestic and 15 international at one carrier, 140 domestic at another — ahead of the water rather than in it, which is the whole argument for lead time, and the Tokyo boards now face a holiday re-accommodation queue as the system goes extratropical Tuesday. Off south-west Mexico, a Category-4 forecast inside about 72 hours is a schedule-buffering decision at the Pacific-coast airports today, not later. Southern Brazil holds flights under gusts past 100 km/h and hail across three states, and the north German and Baltic coast runs force 8 wind until it calms Tuesday. In the American interior the exposure is the ordinary one: thunderstorm and flood-driven ground delay on a marginal severe day. Who owns the call — a network operations centre choosing between a pre-cancel and a rolling delay.

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