Going back to a point made in this thread, in Europe their is no requirement for a dispatcher. It would be interesting to see what the effect would of been of the OCC tracking their flights with almost live weather data. Seeing the bigger picture and providing this to the crew.
ACARS or a company radio network are a great help at times like this.
On a side note Lufthansa are just about to hook up their EFB's to the Internet so they will have live weather information.
All of these things would help, but at the end of the day the PIC had to make a decision - he just needs the right information to do it.
PT6A