Originally Posted by
why fly
well AC certainly screwed the customer today. LGA and EWR are still fine, and AC stopped its flights at 10AM?
What news did AC watch that they screwed up so badly?
So three weeks ago when a storm, that wasn't supposed to be a storm, hits YYZ/YOW/YUL many people here went nuts that they weren't prepared.
Now, the thread asks Will AC be ready, and according to some, they're screwing customers by being proactive...
Why am I not surprised.
For those who are interested in a good article, TIME last January or February had a lengthy explanation of all sorts of aircraft scheduling. Why one flight might cancelled while another one is not, etc. etc. etc.
One of the things they mentioned is that airlines are being more and more proactive to preemptively cancel flights in the case of major weather systems.
Airlines have found that its better to cancel a flight earlier and keep the plane at a more strategic area (hub) than to strand a plane, a crew etc. at a far out place. That way, when the storm clears, operations get back to normal much more quickly on the back end.
For example, a crew stuck in a major delay at a non-hub airport will time out, then the airline needs to send another crew to operate the flight and bring the original crew back causing further delays...
But of course, that probably makes too much sense, so lets go back to saying they are screwing passengers.