Originally Posted by
JSM8
Here we go again! Does Easyjet have a standard approach to first saying 'no' to everything and then only if you push or go through CEDR do you get any joy? This time they are claiming to swerve their responsibilities, blaming LGW on a lack of deicing fluid! OK it was on 18th March when it was cold and it snowed in the morning. But this was in the early evening not the morning. The aircraft rostered landed at 19.13 (from BFS) and was supposed to then operate U28117, scheduled to depart at 18.05. If it was a normal EasyJet turnaround, I reckon the flight could have got away at around 19.50. So my question I guess is were aircraft being de-iced at that time in the evening on 18th March. If not then surely the cancellation due to a lack of deicing fluid doesn't fly?
Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction?
The time of day makes no difference as aircraft need to be deicde throughout the day, 18/03 was indeed a cold day and I would imagine it did need deicing. There were issues with deicing that day at LGW as they indeed ran out of the fluid. I was lucky enough that my flight to AMS was only delayed but there were many cancellations that day due to this problem. Now, whether this is extraordinary occurence or who is at fault, I don't know but the reason for the cancellation does seem plausible chatting to the pilot that flew me out of LGW that day. If I were you I would try CEDR but the answer might be no...
Was the last BFS of the day cancelled too? Did you not get chance to transfer to that one?