FL370 Officeboy
I see the logic in your name
You are obvioulsy not a Pilot and cannot read other threads
Any A/C can depart from an un licensed Airport under the Private Catergory i e No Pax Crew only as long as the company has insurance cover to operate from an un licensed Airport
Fly Be did as was stated postioned A/c out to other Airports to operate certain flights However Crews do have Duty Hour Regulations to comply with.
If all the crews for the first departures 0700 onwards reported on time which I am sure they did they propably did not have sufficent time to fly to say Bristol wait for the pax and fly to ???? andthen return to Bristol
CAP 360 tells all but I am sure you dont have or have knowledge of this document
Airlines dont cancel flight willy nilly they have a reputaion to live u to
Stop Knocking everthing that goes wrong its Life