Essex, England

Passengers wait in an empty terminal at Stansted Airport in Essex, eastern England, on Friday during the continent's biggest air travel shutdown since <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="EVHST00000110" title="World War II (1939-1945)" href="/topic/unrest-conflicts-war/wars-interventions/world-war-ii-%281939-1945%29-EVHST00000110.topic">World War II</a>, with Europe's air traffic control center predicting 17,000 flights would be canceled on Friday.
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( Carl Court AFP / Getty Images / April 16, 2010 )

Passengers wait in an empty terminal at Stansted Airport in Essex, eastern England, on Friday during the continent's biggest air travel shutdown since World War II, with Europe's air traffic control center predicting 17,000 flights would be canceled on Friday.

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