Originally Posted by
Sj40
Sorry I should have said the problem occurred in Heathrow on the incoming flight, so the fault did not happen whilst in Dubai
The point I was trying to get to was that if your flight was from LHR then it might be reasonable to expect BA to have a couple of spare planes there given the number of flights it operates from LHR. From DXB it's 3 a day (from memory) so having spare planes there isn't a reasonable precaution.