Originally Posted by
benm345
The usual procedure would look a bit more like this: Land BOH, drop pax, ask HQ nicely to organise a coach or two back to SOU for pax, depart BOH empty back to BFS maintaining the schedule. Half the compensation to pay and only the outbound pax severely inconvenienced. No idea in this instance though, Would love to know if they asked about a divert.
Presuming the diversions were due to weather, no compensation is due. I'd assume the diversion back would be down to not disrupting the schedule. Seems to be becoming standard practice more and more on short flights across airlines.