Rough year for airlines Delays for passengers could spawn a backlash.(Series: Looking Back: The stories of 2000 CORRECTION/date 12-31-2000: To correct a story in Friday's editions, air traffic controllers in Elgin were penalized on charges they intentionally slowed traffic.)(News)

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Byline: Robert McCoppin Daily Herald Staff Writer ***** Series: Looking Back: The stories of 2000 CORRECTION/date 12-31-2000: To correct a story in Friday's editions, air traffic controllers in Elgin were penalized on charges they intentionally slowed traffic. ***** If the past year in air travel were a movie, it might be called, "Passengers on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." The flying public - particularly at O'Hare International Airport - grumbled through a long summer of labor disputes and thunderstorms and then an early winter of labor disputes and snowstorms.

In response, aviation watchdogs say, next year might be better titled, "Do the Right Thing," as a passenger backlash pushes for improvements at O'Hare and across the board. In...