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Holiday Travelers Hope to Avoid Mother Nature's Wrath

Aired December 21, 2000 - 9:17 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: If the economy is sour, we will see how mother nature may or may not sour holiday travel this weekend. Let's go to back to Atlanta's International Hartsfield Airport and pick up things with Brian Cabell this morning.

Brian, what is happening?

BRIAN CABELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning, Bill. It is not a balmy morning here in Atlanta, but it is certainly chilly, probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 degrees. But so far, no snow, no sleet, no ice that we can see. Passengers are managing on the roadways all right. They are getting and they are checking in here.

There are some delays, however; there are some cancellations. In fact, we have been told by Delta just in the last hour or so that about 20 percent of their flights between 9:00 this morning and 4:00 this afternoon are going to be canceled, passengers are being apprised of that right now. They are doing that for deicing reasons. They expect the bad weather to arrive some time later on this morning, and then they are hoping to resume by about 4:00, 5:00 this afternoon.

We do have most travelers getting through all right. With us right now, the Cornwell family, One, two, three, four, five of you all together. Tell me this, who is the littlest traveler here?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chipper.

CABELL: Chipper. And Chipper seems to be reasonably happy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. He is a little yorkie, and he is going to Vermont skiing.

CABELL: Were you concerned at all about the weather here or in Vermont?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure, we were very concerned about the weather here with the front that is pushing through supposedly this afternoon. We were hoping that it would stay until this afternoon and we would get out this morning.

CABELL: And the weather in Vermont, how does it look right now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just like here, but I am from Florida, Palm Beach.

CABELL: So how do you like this kind of weather?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think I am going back to Palm Beach.

CABELL: Your flight is at 10:30. Any problems so far?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, none. They said everything is moving along fine this morning.

CABELL: So you are going to Vermont for the holidays?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Skiing in Vermont.

CABELL: Once again, the Cornwell family from Atlanta, headed for Vermont. So far, no problems with the other airlines, no cancellations that we have seen of any number so far from the other airlines. But Delta, as a precaution, is canceling flights. 20 percent of the flights -- Go ahead and go right on through -- 20 percent of their flights between 9:00 and 4:00, that is when they think the bad weather will be coming through here in Atlanta and of course any problems that occur here, there will be a ripple affect across the United States.

Then after 4:00 or 5:00, they expect the bad weather to have gone through, and then they will get back to normal flight operations.

I am Brian Cabell, CNN, live at Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta.

HEMMER: Brian, thank you very much.

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