High-flying students can teach us a lesson in economic forward-planning

THE snowploughs were still out, but in single file, not battalions.

Most of the runways at JFK had opened again, so that instead of 16 flights an hour, they were back up to 60.

The queues at the Aer Lingus check-in were long, but fewer war stories were being told. One man said that he’d been delayed a week, the worst aspect of the delay being the fact that he turned up at his regional airport every day, was checked in, run through security, only to then encounter first a flight delay notice and eventually — on some days as long as eight hours later — an announcement that the flight to JFK had been cancelled.