Originally Posted by
ProleOnParole
Are you sure it really is just a single, one-off change? Most likely the airline changed their whole weekly schedule from a certain point in time onwards. It can happen for a multitude of reasons such as for example: choosing to fly different planes on this route, adding or removing other routes flown with the same plane, changes to flight paths or availability of airport facilities.
While changes well in advance tend to correlate with broad rescheduling, I'm taking a flight tomorrow that a week in advance was rescheduled for two hours later. Not any other flight the same week and not the flight on the day a week later, just that one flight.
I have no idea why that would happen, but I'm sure lots of passengers on this trans-Atlantic flight are upset.