Certain flights including LAS require a minimum amount of rest regardless of length of duty unless it triggers the next category of needing longer breaks due to delays . This is an industrial agreement agreed to by BA. LAS requires 2.5 hours minimum, so that's 5 hours rest required by crew plus 20 mins handover. LAS usually around 9.5 hours, which leaves just over 4 hours to deliver two hot services. If first service took over 2 hours especially in Club World, this may not leave enough time for second service.

Now I don't agree with cutting the service and there are different ways of managing this- but the discretion is at the SCCM on how to make it work to achieve the breaks- as the breaks are a legal requirement (industrial or otherwise) and the onus is on the SCCM to ensure this is adhered to. The company line is that the SCCM needs to manage this however they need to adapt the service.

On top of that we are still sending flights with reduced crew complements due to disruptions.
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