The train operator advised passengers to use alternative routes with South West Trains and Chiltern Trains and has offered refunds to travellers who decide not to travel on Saturday.
"For customers intending to start or finish their journey at King's Cross, consideration should be given to deferring travel plans to either Sunday or Monday.
"East Coast is particularly sorry, too, for the inconvenience to its customers as a result on what we know is an already very busy travel day immediately following the Christmas break.
Last year, during David Cameron's trip to Beijing, the same paper announced that Britain was "just an old European country apt [that is, suitable] for travel and study".
NR said on Tuesday that staff were allowed to travel in business class on any flight longer than five hours.
A total of £1.3m was spent on flights in 2013-14 and 2104-15 but £32m was spent on rail travel during that period.
Flights extra While the situation in East Timor is relatively calm compared with recent periods of political strife, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office still advises against "all but essential travel" to the region.
A prophet's saying states: "Travel is a piece of torture".
In many African countries, those at risk often have to spend huge amounts of money and travel hundreds of miles to reach heart specialists concentrated in main urban centres.
The residency permit will allow Snowden to travel out of Russia for the first time, provided he does not stay outside the country for more than three months at a time, Kucherena said.
Wood, the multimillionaire who made his fortune founding travel and accommodation service Wotif.com, is the founding investor but does not hold shares or board membership.
