Originally Posted by
XLR26
I agree that no compensation is owed. However, when UA (or any other airline for that matter) advertises a flight as being “non-stop”, but knows from experience that from time-to-time the flight will require a “planned” stop for fuel due to headwinds,
I think that's the point here. I haven't heard anyone (Especialy AD & FAB) yet say they'd take a plane and push back if they knew
then that they'd have to stop.
Finding out a couple of hours later that the weather guess was wrong...
I'd bet you could carry a decent amount of extra fuel for a decent number of flights for what one divert costs in extra fuel. Someone's done the math and said the weather people are right in their guess enough to carry amount X.
Seems we need better weather guessers.