Originally Posted by
jamesteroh
Seeing that WN likes to boast they have the most domestic flights a day, and will consider seven departures on the same flight to be seven flights in figuring the number of daily flights they do a day, if that entire flight is cancelled, it is on fair to say they had seven flights cancelled as well when figuring number of cancellations.
Actually, that's
unfair to say, or in any way assume.
If we had a hypothetical flight 123 that ran from DAL-HOU-PHX-LAX-OAK, that's one flight number, and 4 individual flights. The 4 flights are part of our roughly 3,400 flight per day. Should Flight 123 DAL-HOU get cancelled (for whatever reason) it
doesn't necessarily nor automatically mean that Flight 123 HOU-PHX, PHX-LAX, or LAX-OAK, also get cancelled, as another aircraft could be "turned" to operate the flight, say (in this case) from HOU, and all the way to OAK. In the above scenario, it would only show up as one cancelled flight, not four.