The FAA ground stop ended Friday night, so why are flights still canceled?

A departures board can go red in a minute, and nothing anyone here does changes it. Friday proved that, and Saturday was still clearing the backlog. But the town was not standing around waiting for planes. Walls are being measured for paint, cave diving operators who normally compete are sitting in the same room, rooms are filling again after a thin few months, and the arguments about rentals and construction are being had out loud rather than put off until spring. What arrives is decided somewhere else. What it finds when it lands is decided here, and that is the week below.