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Blake Feetwood, who owns five Cook Travel agencies around New York, said he has dozens of passengers stranded in various airports.

His team worked through the night to get five architects out of Mumbai. They were supposed to fly back to New York via London.

"My agent was up all night trying to reroute them to come via the Pacific," Feetwood said. "The other route takes about three or four hours longer but if you have a death cloud out there, you have to go the other way."

Now they are flying Mumbai to Bangkok to Tokyo to New York thanks to an agent who spent the night searching for tickets.

"My agent was just sitting there watching the computer, as seats opened up, grabbing them," he said....