I know I'm being incredibly naive but a more balanced view from the UK media would be welcomed. The BBC and Sky still have scolling banners proclaiming "more flights cancelled" or similar. To my knowledge no new flights have been cancelled today - i.e. other than the 36 that were planned and published at the start of the day. This just creates further panic from passengers planning to travel and more people cancelling or calling up to check their flights. I've seen most of the coverage today and not once have they mentioned that the 36 flights were cancelled in advance to create a firebreak. In fact the BBC News 24 reporter has just said that no flights seem to have been cancelled after 8:00pm tonight - that's because none were planned to be!
Neither has there been mention of other problems with other new airports. This article sounds very familiar...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...fic/129891.stm
DEN, KUL and BKK all had problems with their openings too.