1.   Because many of its pilots have declined to fly voluntary overtime, Delta said it was forced to cancel hundreds of flights, stranding thousands of passengers.

2.   Airlines then stopped flying, stranding thousands of travelers two weekends ago.

3.   Dense fog envoloped the San Francisco Bay area Sunday and early Monday, stranding thousands of airline passengers trying to go home after the Christmas holiday.

4.   Did the media strand thousands of travelers?

5.   Floyd stranded thousands of travelers throughout the nation Tuesday as airlines grounded hundreds of flights.

6.   Icy conditions stranded thousands of travelers at Dorval International Airport, in Montreal.

7.   It stranded thousands, delayed flights and disrupted East Coast air travel.

8.   Protests by poppy farmers furious over a new government anti-drug campaign have stranded thousands of Afghan refugees seeking to return home from Pakistan, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.

9.   A dawn-to-noon transport strike stranded thousands of passengers in many towns in Pampanga province north of Manila where classes also were suspended.

10.   A partial bus strike in the capital Tuesday stranded thousands of commuters and forced others to get to work by bicycle or on the back of pickup trucks.