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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, that's more for tracking your flight, but there's 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. there's the government, there's the faa, there's one that the ntsb has. again, our concern is generally internationally. we know that most carriers here this the u.s. are very safe. in fact, there hasn't been a crash of a u.s. ...

What do the lingering issues mean right now? >> reporter: things look a lot better for united airlines today versus yesterday but there's still some cancellations, still some delays. we're talking about right now 13 cancellations. that's 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 they're at 93. we see an increase in the delays, but better shape than they were yesterday, but cnn did obtain an internal message to its employees, and it describes even after the computer check-in...

Because they had five crashes in five years. it turns out they weren't related to each other. but it's an issue,is since it was a pilot's union, there's 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, there's such a high demand for pilots especially in china and other places the pacific rim area. i don't know pilots are in hot demand right now. >> mary, let's remind everybody what we're talking about here to our viewers, to the u.s. and around the world. germanwings flight 9525 accordi...

Was snow in chicago, rain in the southeast and more rain in the northeast but somebody snuck that present into that gift because that's a situation we're dealing with today. we're in laguardia where brooke spent many hours yesterday. right now it's 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 christmas trees. not a good thing on this day. here at laguardia, ten canceled flights. 31 delays....

Planes on schedule in this messy winter weather and that's 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 york's laguardia airport. rosa, i was there day before yesterday and i didn't 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 were lucky and it doesn't have anything to do with being naughty or nice today, dana, so you and br...