Originally Posted by
WHBM
the Titan 767 has been sat at Stansted all day..
IF BA had known that the 767 was going to be unavailable, for whatever reason, at the
start of the day then I guess a charter might have been considered or a substitution of equipment made on one of the earlier flights if resources allowed. If OTOH as you say the 767 was undergoing scheduled maintenance/a check and was forecast by the engineers to be "fit" in time for the Athens then I doubt BA would arrange a charter just in case (I doubt any airline would ever charter "just in case" servicing wasn't going to be complete).
Perhaps things unravelled late in the day and BA had to take the decision to cancel and consolidate... why the 24 hour delay? Probably the quickest BA could whistle up a wide body and crew without jeopardising other parts of the operation either tonight or tomorrow AM.
As for passengers being "dumped" ....hopefully hotels have been provided...I'd agree there would be grounds for complaint if they were not.