More than 20, 000 passengers have been stranded in Tokyo alone and it could take several days to clear the backlog, according to USA Today.
Eurotunnel said it was managing to clear the backlog of cars and lorries waiting to use its Channel Tunnel car service.
As a result, a large backlog of data was generated and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible.
To clear the backlog Mr Hammond was allowing incoming flights to arrive at Heathrow throughout the night, while outbound planes would be taking off up until 1am.
Courts opened overnight to clear the backlog with prosecutors from across the region travelling to London to help out.
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The Department of Education said the council's targets were not strict enough, immediate action was needed to clear a backlog of unallocated cases, and the views of children involved need to be taken into account.
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To clear the backlog of cases, the Social Security Administration in 2008 pushed judges to move between 500 and 700 cases a year, something less than half of judges were managing at the time, according to Mr. Astrue, the commissioner.
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We are working to clear the backlog as quickly as possible and apologise for any inconvenience.
Many councils have asked crews to work through the bank holiday to try to clear the backlog.
At the present rate of hearings it would take ten years to clear the backlog, the government admits.
The force said extra staff were brought in to clear the backlog and it has since streamlined the process.
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council said it would resume collections but would work over the weekend to clear the backlog.
However, 130 flights were cancelled on Saturday and Sunday as the airline attempted to clear a backlog of maintenance work.
Traders and investors are rushing to clear a backlog of share trades that built up over the two days the markets were closed.
Transport ministry official Thierry Mariani said staff at Paris's main airport, Charles de Gaulle, were working round the clock to clear the backlog of flights.
Another positive sign it that manufacturers are continuing to clear the backlog of stock which built up as the slowdown hit, clearing the way for new production.
Indeed, Tachi Yamada, the head of the Gates Foundation's Global Health Programme, suggests bringing in volunteers from the rich world on a temporary basis, to clear the backlog.
No wonder the ratio of judges is as low as 14 per one million people, compared with over 100 judges per million citizens in the US. Some years ago, a Delhi High Court judge reckoned it would take more than 450 years to clear the backlog given then judge numbers.
What's more, carmakers in Europe produced some four million cars last year that they have yet to sell - a backlog that would take about three months or more to clear at current sales rates.
For the past 10 days, the bank has been trying to clear a huge backlog of transactions that was caused by a computer system problem.
If you are in this category, you should make sure you clear up the backlog relating to past years, otherwise there will be a tax-related penalty of up to 100% of any outstanding tax.
It is clear that if the backlog is to be eliminated by 2001, only the most cursory examination of past asylum claims will be possible.
Aircraft maintainers plan to clear up as much of a backlog of scheduled inspections and maintenance that budgets allow.
" It was clear that the arrangements for clearing the backlog of checks was going to take longer than we had hoped, " she said.
The exchange was forced to close for most of September so that bewildered brokers could clear a backlog of some 60, 000 orders.
Staff at both Belfast City and Belfast International airports are confident they will clear most of the backlog of passengers waiting for flights delayed and disrupted due to the bad weather on Friday.
Mr Le Ray said the airport would stay open late on Wednesday if needed in order catch up with the backlog, but flights should be back to normal on Thursday as the weather was due to clear.
An enormous backlog of cases - running to 120, 000 by the end of 2009, which would have taken 46 years to clear if the court had continued to work at the same pace - made it imperative that the court's functions be streamlined, especially for minor cases.
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