Thanks everyone.
I knew I would get the "ops guy playing god with the weather"line.
Ha ha.Very witty.
The point I was trying to make,was that it seemed a bit premature to cancel all flights based on a notoriously unreliable wx forecast so early in the day.There was five hours of good flying in and out of the channel isles last night (with more available through extensions).But,apart from a couple of inter-island flights and one in and out to SOU there was nothing,as all the flights had been cancelled,assuming that the wx would stay foggy.
I think I would be a little peeved if I had been stuck in LGW or one of the islands for up to 48 hours,knowing that the weather was fine but all flights had been abandoned hours earlier.
The aircraft on the routes to GCI and JER are (in FlyBe's case) dedicated to the route,so they weren't needed elsewhere.
I don't know the ins and outs of an ops guys job,but would have thought that it wouldn't take too much thought to keep the crews in a local hotel,and call them if and when the wx lifted,as was the case.
Sill,what do I now.I've only being flying in and out of the islands for 30 years.