Originally Posted by
lehovec
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?
Thanks....the aircraft was rostered to land from BFS and then move to the LGW-ZUR-LGW rotation which got cancelled (I was on the last leg of this sector. It was the last Easyjet flight out of Zurich. There must be some way of checking if flights needed deicing at around 19.00. Particularly given that it would have only been scheduled to be on the ground for around 40 min before moving off again