I'm dreaming of a white Christmas*

(*'White Christmas' by Irving Berlin)

Apropos nothing in particular, I heard on the radio this morning a USA correspondent discussing recent blizzards and as an example of delays at New York's JFK Airport he mentioned a Cathy Pacific flight from Vancouver whose pasengers sat on the tarmac for ten hours before they could disembark because there were no gates available for the plane to park.

Ten hours!