Originally Posted by
0zenon0
The OP raises a great point which hasn't been answered yet. Alot of things depend on whether a delay is weather related or not; who makes the offical call? I would like to know this too.
Zen
This is a very important point and has not been answered. Maybe the only answer could come from a lawsuit.
There was a hurricane approaching Florida. Delta made the operational decision to move their planes north.
I was on a AUS-DTW-BOS Delta flight. DL cancelled DTW-BOS claiming it was weather, but the DTW-BOS equipment arrived from PDX. Delta decided to cancel DTS-BOS because they did not have the parking slots available at BOS. Weather did not effect the flight between DTW-BOS. At what point can it/should it be called weather? I think this is an operational decision, not weather.
The question is where does the line get drawn? Does the airline get to call it weather when there are 100 steps between? Is it weather when the plane has a mechanical problem because the plane flew in snow 5 years before?