By 9am, 121 of these were cancelled - 20 of these are long haul and include flights to major and lucrative destinations including New York, Newark, Boston, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg.
101 Eurofleet flights were also cancelled .
By their own figures thats a cancellation rate of 121/333. So 63.3% operating. ie pretty much exactly what BA claim.
Not only do BA pay for carriers to take the passengers, they hand over the revenue from these flights too. Qantas, Iberia and Aer Lingus are the main beneficiaries today operating BA flights to Bangkok, Sydney, Melbourne, Madrid and Dublin.
Do they mean the codeshares that BA has to these destinations every day of the year? They really are quite astonishingly dim.