1.   Also in Washington, Federal Aviation Administration officials prepared to allow flights to resume sometime Wednesday but did not know when that would take place.

2.   American Airlines said, however, that it expects commercial flights to resume on Wednesday morning.

3.   Adding to the confusion, airlines, governments and news organizations issued conflicting information about when flights would resume.

4.   After a search of the plane and luggage by officers and bomb-sniffing dogs, the flight resumed.

5.   Businesses remained open, and flights resumed on delayed schedules after a three-hour morning shutdown of Ben-Gurion Airport.

6.   But even more delicate than when the flights resume is how the Navy will conduct them.

7.   But if commercial flights resume within the next day or so, as some airlines hope, an evacuation would not be needed, he said.

8.   Even after flights resumed, they have continued to lose tens of millions of dollars a day because of a sharp decline in passengers.

9.   Embassies are opening, commercial flights have resumed, small businesses are everywhere.

10.   Even when flights resume, delays and cancellations will be inevitable given that aircraft scheduled for specific routes were grounded unexpectedly throughout the nation.