Conglomeration of wonders

I beg to differ with the phrase 'hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded'. There were 18, 600 flights cancelled alone yesterday. Assuming each aircraft had only 100 passengers that would be 1.8 million and most narrow body aircraft have typically 150 or more seats and wide body aircraft up to 3 times that. If we then factor in this is the third day of cancelled flights I would put a reasonable estimate of around 5 million passengers stranded. The math doesn’t add up with what's reported. The impact or consequence of delays is going to cost 1$Billions. Who is going to pay for his hotel bill for instance, the client? Lost productivity? Airlines already almost insolvent are going to have to pay wages, operating overheads and pay passenger compensation; it’s not looking good economically and could cause Europe to revert into recession if we don't get flying soon.