Advice requested--Northwest weather

[DenverF9Flier]

My GF just got a call from B6 that they cancelled her flight tomorrow morning from JFK to DEN. She's re-booked on the evening flight, but this comes just as the weather forecast is getting less and less severe, and may be just rain at JFK tomorrow morning. Is B6 so scared after the Valentines Day meltdown that they just cancel flights at the drop of the hat like this? Wouldn't it be better to try and get people out, and cancel tomorrow if they had to? It was strange because they offered to send her through Boston tomorrow morning instead, which left even earlier (worse snow predicted), but was not cancelled?

[BearX220]

Could be a fleet positioning problem combined with a light load -- e.g. some aircraft are out of place because of weather, they know they're not going to recover by tomorrow, so they're cancelling the least-booked flights preemptively. Weather at other stations can affect ops at your station this way.

What you're experiencing is actually a better policy than the usual, which is that B6 insists everything's going to run on time until the moment of scheduled departure, at which point they break down and tell you your aircraft is actually grounded in Manila and offer to rebook you for a flight in 2017.

[Mimi Imferst]

Originally Posted by DenverF9Flier

B6 so scared after the Valentines Day meltdown that they just cancel flights at the drop of the hat like this?

Originally Posted by BearX220

they break down and tell you your aircraft is actually grounded in Manila and offer to rebook you for a flight in 2017.

Even an extreme weather forecast can't match extremes like these.