Originally Posted by
cm1234
Never experienced any issues travelling before so trying to get to grips with claim process and prospect of success for compensation. Presumably BA will look to avoid responsibility and may cite fog - but not clear how they can make this case when multiple other flights are leaving as planned and the decision was taken to cancel my flight at least 12 hours prior and without communicating to travellers.
Welcome to Flyertalk and welcome to the BA Forum.
The first post has a link to the disruption signposts thread, which can give you advice in this scenario. In addition to moving to another GLA flight, BA has some capacity on EDI and would pay the taxi or coach fare over to GLA. They would also pay for the train ticket.
The thread below is a well informed explainer why only some flights are cancelled if there is fog. The short version of that is that LHR is run at 98% capacity, based on normal visibility and normal lines of sight on the apron. As soon as visibility drops then the capacity has to be cut - the aerodrome simply can't operate with 680 arriving aircraft. So far this has been cut to 658 aircraft, and so a number of services, mostly BA shorthaul services, get canned. Including yours. There won't be any compensation in these circumstances.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...explainer.html