Originally Posted by
tylorcl
You can say it is weather delay. But CA has flight that can depart earlier, KA has no airplane in PEK the evening of the day before, which they should have done. They may have very flight delay and maybe they cancelled the flight from HKG to PEK and every passenger in HKG had gone home that night so they do not want to fly a empty aircraft to PEK to pick up the passenger in PEK in the next morning. Whose problem should this be?
I called CX the evening the day before depature and asked them if the flight in the next morning has any delay and was told everything looks fine. I asked this since I saw the storm that evening. I registered the cell phone notification for the departure time. I arrived at airport at 6:50 and was told the flight will be delayed to 11:30am. The notification comes to my cell phone on 10:30am saying that the flight has been delayed. Ridiculous, yes!
This delay is still due to weather - if there were no thunderstorms this wouldn't have happened. Also, for weather delays they generally don't put you on another carrier.
As for the delay notification, they could have done better. The evening before they might not have know about the cancellation if the flight departed late, but they could have done a better job letting passengers know about it. If you think there might be a problem, actually calling them or checking their website usually works, but again, they should have done a better job letting passengers know what is going on.