Solve the following problem using the first three steps of the analytical problem$-$solving model.

You$$re the flight director for an airline in a Midwestern city.

One winter day your airport is forced to close because of a blizzard. The runways are being plowed just enough to permit a few inbound planes to land occasionally but no outbound flights can take off. In anticipation of the airport reopening, you have thirty flights carrying four thousand people waiting near$/$on the runways. As time goes on$,$ you have no indication of when the airport will allow flights to depart.

The airport is responsible for opening and closing the airport. As the flight director your responsibility is your flights. Your airline's policies and practices call for putting passenger safety first, but they don$$t cover this type of situation.

What should you do$?$

Step One: Define the Problem

Step Two: Generate Alternatives

Step Three: Systematically Evaluate Alternatives