AP – Condensation trails of aircraft are seen over Frankfurt, central Germany, Thursday, April 22, 2010, as By SLOBODAN LEKIC and CARLO PIOVANO, Associated Press Writers Slobodan Lekic And Carlo Piovano, Associated Press Writers – Thu Apr 22, 10:04 am ET
BRUSSELS – European airports sent thousands of planes into the sky Thursday after a week of unprecedented disruptions, with airlines piling on more flights and bigger planes to try to get as many people home as possible.
Nearly all of the continent's 28,000 scheduled flights, including more than 300 trans-Atlantic routes, were going ahead. Every plane was packed, however, as airlines squeezed in some of the hundreds of thousands who had been stranded for days among passengers with regular Thursday tickets.
