Originally Posted by
perkin
No mandatory compensation as far as I'm aware as its a situation beyond the airlines control
Really beyond their control ? What about where the runway is Cat 3 but the airline in question has not bothered with the extra costs of keeping the crews current ? Or at Heathrow where once LVPs set in they cannot sustain the runway arrival rate scheduled, because they schedule up to the fair-weather maximum, so there have to be arbitrary cancellations. Or where having no slack at all in their schedule (to save costs) leads to knock-on problems that last for days ? Or the elimination of standby crews again to save costs.
I think when the regulators exempted "weather delays" they were thinking about runways blocked with snow, etc. Not the consequential issues that are behind the majority of supposed "weather delays"