Originally Posted by
WHBM
Air Carriers had this ruling coming to them, as many had claimed "circumstances beyond their control" when this was not true.
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BA cancellations at Heathrow due to flow controls in low visibility ? Well, you may notice this only normally afflicts domestic flights. BA make a commercial decision in such restrictions to dump the domestics and keep long haul going 100%. That's not Circumstances Beyond Their Control at all, it is a decision by the commercial department based on profitability. Fine, and the right thing to do, but don't pretend to the disorganised pax that the cancellation of their particular domestic flight was beyond BA's control.
Just out of curiosity how would you suggest BA deal with flow control restrictions? Is it better to cancel a daily widebody heading to Vancouver, or a A319 headed to EDI? Of course profits are part of it, but the inconvenience for the YVR pax is going to be a lot more than the EDI pax.
Should BA simply schedule fewer flights? That won't work as those slots would simply be used by others. You can't retire a slot.