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To answer the question raised here (and elsewhere) about when BA cancels: this of course can come at any point, even after boarding, and it's complicated by BA putting up a comprehensive timetable for 8 weeks from now and then gradually scaling it down week by week (and as someone with a huge number cancellations in recent months, the ensuring workoad is getting quite exasperating). However around about 16 days to departure the main process of cancellations tends to stop, and anything after that is likely to be a genuinely unavoidable cancellation which was not easy to foresee. There is a 14 day timescale within EC261 which rightly tends to concentrate airlines' approach to this, though up to now the protection of EC261 is more limited than in normal times.