Originally Posted by
Sunnyjohn
While we were being loaded onto the BRS flight, word came that the BOH flight had been cancelled. All eleven passengers joined our BRS flight and I assume they were bussed from BRS to BOH.
Quite possible, because if there is an issue (eg aircraft gone tech, crew out of hours, etc), then the ops team will decide on the jury-rig rearrangement that is most effective on the spot, which might well include, if the aircraft with 150 pax for London goes down, giving them the Bournemouth aircraft, and consolidating 11 pax for Bournemouth and 100 pax for Bristol. It's the most sensible thing to do in the circumstances, which is not the same as cancelling due to low loads booked.
Meanwhile someone is organising the spare aircraft at Luton, plus a crew, to ferry empty over to Bournemouth for the next legs, plus a taxi back to Luton for that crew, getting a coach at Bristol to take the Bournemouth passengers on, all the while sending a second ferry crew over to Valencia to recover the tech aircraft by another ferry flight when it is fixed, and organising engineers and spares for the stranded aircraft. This is all big bucks down the drain, but what the ops team do to keep the show on the road.