Originally Posted by
stevea1234
The only option I was given for a complete day at 8am was economy via Chicago (it was on american and economy all the way).
What other options did you discover for flights starting in Philadelphia? Did you ever mention to the UK call centre that you'd be prepared to travel under your own steam to a different US city altogether to start your journey?
Originally Posted by
stevea1234
I'm fairly sure BA cancelled the flight as they didn't want to operate it. And even if it was a technical fault, they had plenty of time to put something else in place.
Given the extensive disincentives to cancelling flights just becuase an airline doesn't feel like operating it, would you care to share the detailed inside information you clearly have that gives you such confidence that this was the case on this occasion?
And perhaps you'd also like to share the exact "something else" that the airline could have put in place instead? How many spare airframes are just sitting around at LHR in case something goes tech? Which airframe would the airline have used?
Or is the truth of the matter that you actually have no idea about any of this?