I'm caught in the middle of all this. I'm flying out to San Francisco connecting, of course, through Atlanta. It's definitely a madhouse, but mostly people are acting calm.<p>This is why when travelling cross-country or internationally I always give a full day for stuff like this.<p>Interestingly, CNN and Fox News are scanning for annoyed passenger tweets (they found mine) and have been contacting them for interviews for their reports.
This video might be relevant:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPvJlPnc6E" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPvJlPnc6E</a><p>Its argument is that the U.S. flight control system is obsolete because it is government-run, as opposed to the Canadian system, which is run by a private company controlled by the airlines, which have better incentives to keep it up-to-date.