AirTran Flight 299, on the other hand, was cancelled 17 percent of the time.

The regular season is shortened from 82 games down to 48, cancelling 41.5 percent of the full regular season.

Since civil aviation employees also were on strike, airlines canceled all but 15 percent of domestic flights and many international ones as well.

On Aug. 19, Northwest said, it canceled 8.4 percent of its flights - five times more than the average for the airline industry during 2005.

That morning the company canceled 23 percent of its flights and shut service to 11 cities entirely.

His gesture was to cancel 17 percent of the punitive tariffs that he shouldn't have imposed on Japanese electronics products in the first place.

The government also announced that it would cancel twenty-five percent of housing loans that had been already given to citizens.

If the company keeps the worker for 24 months, the Government will cancel 50 percent of that loan.

Over the weekend, Northwest canceled 100 flights, or 2.4 percent of those scheduled.

In opinion polls it trails only the decision to cancel 98 percent of the country's Soviet-era debt.