One American (an english teacher living in Sendai for 3 years) said there was only about 5 minutes between the quake and the actual Tsunami, not a lot of time to get to higher ground, if there was any higher ground to get to. With no power, no clean water, no food and oh yeah, it's still pretty cold outside, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better, and that's if the Nuke Plant doesn't blow. If that thing goes, it's going to be very ugly.

Delta (by way of the North West merger) has a big hub in Tokyo (Narita) with over 60 flights a day to other Asian cities.

My boys over there tell me the Narita airport is open and ops. normal, but now with the possibility of a wind shift, and a Nuke cloud to fly through on arrival, there is talk they might shut the whole operation down and evacuate all crews...

And last week as I was walking out the door to fly to Dubai my wife said to me, "With all the unrest in the Middle East, why don't you fly Tokyo??"

Um...no.