Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Because UK regional passengers
a) can often use trains or surface transport whereas only Paris is easily accessible from the UK by train
b) you're a captive market and they prefer the longer distance cash flow
c) its easier to get everything back in place tomorrow in the UK
Try telling that to someone who has just arrived on the QF 9 from Perth at about 5am to find there 7.30am flight to NCL cancelled. Or indeed any other long haul arrival into LHR this morning with onward domestic connections to NCL or MAN.
Next flight to NCL about 3pm. Long wait!.