Originally Posted by Dave Noble

And I can fully see why BA are denying it. It wasn't BA that closed the airport , it was HAL

I think that you would be hard pushed to convince a judge that a maintenance issue with flight A that necessitated an emergency landing and that landing was at airport where you were departing from and that after the landing the airport was unable to schedule departures that then led to a flight delay and so that was BA's fault that it could have avoided is going to be a hard sell