<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jerry crump:
If an airline cancels a flight for weather reasons THANK THEM. Even if they have been too cautious THANK THEM. I say this as a private pilot you never want to take a chance.
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The only problem is that historically too many airlines (and not just CO here) have cried "weather" when it had nothing to do with it to hide other problems that may have made them more liable. Which airline that has been in existence for at least 6 years can honestly say that in the past it hasn't canceled flights with very light loads because of "weather". So too many thank you might mean too many "weather" incidences and I say that as a PP as well.
Airlines, in general, do not have credibility when it comes to the weather excuse. The only way they will get credibility is if they can document the reason in some detail and communicate that at the time of the incidence as well as for an oversight process later on that is transparent.