Reply To: Domestic flight cancelled – Help!

[jotaele]

Understood but then my flight was cancelled for operational reasons, not adverse weather conditions. Let’s see what the come back with.

SamG wrote:

jotaele wrote:

My flight to LHR was as well cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. It was supposed to have landed at 21:10 and I was rebooked into another flight that landed at 18:05.

Funny enough all the flights below did land around the time our original cancelled flight was supposed to, so much for adverse weather conditions.

BA0781 landed at 20:45
BA6035 landed at 20:55
BA0797 landed at 21:08
BA1495 landed at 21:14
BA0419 landed at 21:24

This will be an interesting fight to fight for EU261 compensation.

What usually happens is ATC tells the airline to reduce the “flow rate” by X% so they can do things like space out arrivals etc. BA will then decide which flights to cancel to impact the least amount of people or that has the least impact to future flights (e.g. prioritise long haul, night stops etc). Domestics are a favourite as there are train alternatives (BA has an agreement with LNER). So it can be a legitimate reason even though flights are still operating

Does BA occasionally get lucky on a day that they may otherwise have some operational problem? No doubt! But I really can’t imagine getting very far in trying to figure that out unfortunately