Originally Posted by
Grisgris
Understanding all being said and agree safety is paramount. However, if plane was looking to take on more fuel so could go around bad weather, but crew ran out of hours due to time taken, surely BA cannot blame weather as reason to cancel. Other than trying to avoid paying out.
It depends.
What follows here is based on my understanding of ORD (I know it a fair bit) and some scenarios. My hunch is that, of the crew, the pilots are the ones that went into "discretion", and ultimately out of hours, first. This is because ORD is a two-pilot route, and the limit for two-pilot ops is around 10h (roughly, the resident Nigels will have the actual data). Suppose the average ORD-LHR flight is about 7h, that gives you 3h wriggle room. If the weather and re-fuel shenanigans set the flight back by 4 hours, then you'd have been out of hours no matter what; if, on the other hand, you had 2h caused by fuel and weather and 2h caused by a delay in the crew getting over to ORD from Chicago, then it's a different matter.
Originally Posted by
mols
Yes! They said they were trying to source replacement crew so we could still fly!
Out of ORD? That really seems unlikely, there's no standby crew there.