Originally Posted by
Airbubba
Are you sure it wasn't a ferry? I saw the note on BA Source but I'm not sure how the plane could operate a revenue flight even as a freighter if it wasn't OK to carry pax before maintenance work back at LHR. Were some of the passenger service units unserviceable perhaps when panels fell from the aft cabin ceiling?
The aircraft wasn't necessarily unsafe to carry passengers, it just didn't have any on board.
It's not unusual when a service is severely delayed for BA to re-accommodate pax on other flights, but still to carry any originally-booked cargo, so technically a cargo flight albeit with a regular passenger flight number.
There were a couple of similar instances in October.