Originally Posted by Richard Taylor
BAA departures board shows for early tomorrow morning:
X9 201 to Stansted
X9 2801 to London City
Both shown as cancelled.
Sunday was the first day of the winter season. My guess is that at some point X9 filed speculatively for slots for these services, decided not to operate them, at least not from the start of the season (e.g. due to lack of slots in LCY), but forgot to cancel or defer their slot application in ABZ. Many airport FIDS systems run off the slots databases, and then when there's a mismatch you see "cancelled". Normally takes a day or two of the new scheduling season before someone notices and says "ooops!..."
Brgds
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