Originally Posted by
WHBM
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"
So are you saying TOM & WW (the 2 examples given in the first post of this thread) don't keep their crews up to date with CAT3 procedures?
I also wasnt aware that Heathrows landing capacity was something within the control of airlines...