Originally Posted by
samalet
I guess it all comes down to the defenition of cancelation vs delay. There is a daily flight from AMS to ALA and that day it was canceled, but we were booked on the same flight (with the same number) on the next day. So i guess it can be interpreted both ways - as cancelation and as delay.
There is a circular argument that airlines often use with NEBs on the cancellation versus delay issue. If you rebook all passengers from a "delayed" flight to alternate flights using the "rerouting under comparable transport conditions" provision, then the flight no longer has any passengers booked on it and hence its eventual non-operation would no longer be considered a cancellation (as a cancellation is specifically defined as a flight "on which at least one place was reserved").
Again, I stress that this is not an argument I have ever seen advanced to a passenger but rather on an airline to NEB level. The airline line to a passenger would simply be that the flight was "delayed not cancelled".