From the pax perspective - this is very difficult to accept. We know that carriers have freight as a major source of income BUT!
To the outsider, it would seem to make more sense to have asked one of the specialist freight forwarding companies to have dealt with the problem. The cost of that, against the re-routing/fuel/crew hours etc., seems a strange balance.
The adverse P/R is priceless <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">