Originally Posted by
richardnei
As you say the cancellation was due to the crew being out of hours due the aircraft running late. The airline has prob looked at the reason why it was delayed in the 1st place. This could have been due to ATC slots on previously flights or a weather related delay. So they've said it was outside of there control so nothing to pay.
So call out a standby crew ... "What do you mean you don't have a standby crew, who's fault is that?"