Statement from Transun:
Statement: Cancellation of Lapland day break from Manchester on 20 December - Transun Holidays
The Captain makes the decision based on the information he/she is given.
However from a media point of view this is exactly what they love.
This follows hard on the episode of passengers being taken to Paris and brought back without landing.
Clearly Transun, for which these flights are their bread & butter, have moved quickly to try and deflect the adverse publicity.
Possibly those of us who operate in the North have a different attitude to those who operate from Heathrow but I feel that more could be done to improve the current image of our industry.
Hence my comment.