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Old Mar 13, 2023 | 11:20 am
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Originally Posted by JSM8
Seems poor planning that two consecutive flights from BCN to LHR have been cancelled today - BA 485 and BA 481. I suppose both weather related so cant claim EU261? the next one was full so now booked on 489, already showing a delay so will be not far short of 4 hours later than scheduled departure of cancelled flight
Yes, the way this is looking pretty much any EC261 claim today is going to get denied (and correctly so) whereas most of yesterday's disruption was BA's fault and claimable. Today the weather has been sufficiently bad that the shortage of handlers won't have had an impact.
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