Originally Posted by
QRC3288
None of CX's flights went out after around 8pm last night. Yet all the other carriers were successfully running departure ops until midnight or later........
I don't know all the thinking that goes into this, and perhaps there are other regulatory / etc considerations as well (legal / insurance situations once T8 goes up?), but it still seems like the abundance of caution was exercised and it didn't materialize neither as bad nor as early as anticipated.
While nothing compared to the volume of flights that CX has, I can tell you one AC 15 had a 9 hour delay, AC 16 was cancelled, AC 7 was delayed and AC 8 was cancelled. Those were just after a cursory check of the dailies with AC. I can guarantee AC ops plus ground staff @HKG, YYZ and YVR likely have their hands full trying to deal with all those pax not going anywhere.
I know AA and UA posted travel alerts many hours before AC did and UA seemed to have a pretty generous waiver.
@QRC3288
Not that a cyclone or typhoon compares to snowstorms over here in the Great White North, but AC and YYZ had really bad experiences with ice storms and since then, have been overly cautious by cancelling flights well in advance of major storms - even when they don't end up being as bad as predicted.