Originally Posted by Hartmann

I would say CO is a little too quick to pull the 'weather' handle.

During the recent BRU Pub DO, the 764ER we were taking from BRU to EWR was stuck in EWR due to a mx issue. On the PDA site and on Continental.com the reason given was 'mechanical'. As a light snow rolled into EWR the reason changed to 'weather'. We called to try and get rebooked and had to fight for it as the agent quoted weather as the reason, even though the plane was six hours late before the weather hit.