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And i think it really behooves people to see who are you really flying with when you buy that ticket. eric: is it flight safety or flightaware.com? >> well, not necessarily flight aware, thats more for tracking your flight, but theres many, many reputable sites you can go on just doing a cursory search for airline safety, because it depends on who you want to go with. theres the government, theres the faa, theres one that the ntsb has. again, our concern is generally internationally. we know tha...

What do the lingering issues mean right now? >> reporter: things look a lot better for united airlines today versus yesterday but theres still some cancellations, still some delays. were talking about right now 13 cancellations. thats not so bad but we are seeing the delays inching up. a few minutes ago it was at around 82, just checked again according to flight tracker, flightaware.com, and now theyre at 93. we see an increase in the delays, but better shape than they were yesterday, but cnn di...

Because they had five crashes in five years. it turns out they werent related to each other. but its an issue,is since it was a pilots union, theres a shortage of pilots but the airline needs to watch out for the fact that if they start cutting pilots they might have problems regrouping this is worldwide, theres such a high demand for pilots especially in china and other places the pacific rim area. i dont know pilots are in hot demand right now. >> mary, lets remind everybody what were talking ...

Was snow in chicago, rain in the southeast and more rain in the northeast but somebody snuck that present into that gift because thats a situation were dealing with today. were in laguardia where brooke spent many hours yesterday. right now its smooth sailing for travelers. almost nobody is in this particular area. i want you to take a look at the gate. what does it mean when you have snow in chicago, rain in the southeast and northeast? it usually means that monitors like these light up like ch...

Planes on schedule in this messy winter weather and thats no easy task, but it is very kit cal. with many of you watching us now potentially in the airport trying to see if your flights will take off on time, our correspondent rosa flores has been monitoring flight conditions from new yorks laguardia airport. rosa, i was there day before yesterday and i didnt have the problems brooke baldwin was telling us about in the last hour. i just made it out. how is it today? >> reporter: you know, you we...

Flights here at laguardia and 28 delays. as i was showing you just now, the ticketing area looks okay, it looks decent. people are strolling about with their bags, with their kids and checking in. but lets take a look around the country. we have something called the misery map from flightaware.com. take a look at that. that gives you a better picture. some folks are stuck at the airport. you can see the wheels there, those circles, those rings, those are the rings of misery. the more red that th...

Ended. anderson. >> chad, were also getting more information i think from other airlines. i want to check in with rene marsh. what are you hearing? >> reporter: anderson, perhaps a snapshot we have for you here, just goes to show you the activity within the air space shortly after this crash, which is unfolding. so we want to go to this here. this is from flight aware.com. if you take a look, you can see most of the commercial airlines we do know at this point, these flights are avoiding this ar...

These applications here, flightaware.com, just one of them, you can see that there is not heavy traffic within this area where this plane went down. and most likely for good reason. because there is a lot of concern as to what happened and what caused this plane to go down. again, we have been in very close contact with the agencies here. it just goes to show you, information doesnt travel as fast as social media or even the news media, because even here in the united states ntsb doesnt have con...

Taken off from oakland, california. >> yes, 77 years ago, amelia earhart disappeared. today, the young earhart though is setting out to re-create the flight. the young earhart, though not related, felt a kinship with the pilot. >> amelia left a legacy. back in the 1930s. of course, we still think about her disappearance. people still research her and really talk about her in all facets so i hope the legacy i can leave is, you know, the adventure still continues. >> >> earharts trip around the wo...

Picture, about 1400 flights delayed around the u.s. and when you talk about delays, hear this. im going to give you the latest number. 6,000 delays. and by far laguardia is not the worst airport. you can see on a misery map, which we always like to check on flight aware.com, ahead of us are two airports, laguardia is at number three right now. number one is charlotte international in north carolina, and then chicago ohare. the good news is, of course, as the day progresses, also people are able ...