[QUOTE=Bergy Bits;35710997]
Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
There is a separate thread for finding out why flights are cancelled, which is this one:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...3-edition.html
and in post 2669 it's weather related. So for that flight you can't get compensation.
Thank you for that helpful information, but in referring to post 2669, there is no mention of BA369 (6:30pm-7:30pm), only BA368 being cancelled. Typo?
Also, the weather in MRS was glorious, so how does one determine which end of the flight weather was an issue? And at 4:31am (when the e-mail was sent) they know what the weather will be at 6:30pm? I'm not being argumentative, just truly curious.
BA369 is the return working of BA368 (LHR-MRS). Because BA only has bases in London, if an outbound flight is cancelled, so is the corresponding return flight. Hence for the sake of brevity, [MENTION=73039]cws[/MENTION] only lists outbound flights that are cancelled. Return flights usually have a flight number that's 1 higher or lower, depending on factors including whether it was historically a BEA or BOAC route!
If unsure you can always check the likes of FR24 to see what the aircraft workings are, or were the same day last week - many of BA's flights have different schedules for different days of the week so the same flight 7 days prior is often a reasonable indicator.
Poor weather could be anywhere en-route. Indeed it may be as simple as arrival rates being regulated at LHR, which means that something has to give as LHR is planned to operate at ~99% of its theoretical maximum capacity.