Originally Posted by golfmad

What's the current thinking on this situation please:

A bird strike on a flight inbound into LHR caused the delay of my outbound flight from LHR.

I know that ordinarily a bird strike on one's own sector is deemed to be out of the control of the airline but from reading a corresponding thread on the AA forum it sounds like this excuse is negated if it would be reasonable to expect the airline to have another aircraft available for use as a replacement. As the problem occurred for BA at their main hub I'm wondering whether people think BA should cough up under EC261. So far BA have politely said 'no'.

Thanks