[Reeferman]

@ LuganoPirate
It seems so.
Earlier this week I noticed BA has added 10 minutes to its AGP/LCY flight time at weekends – and 5 minutes on weekdays (the LCY/AGP leg is unchanged – for now!)
Another way of “cooking the books” and reducing the risk of payouts for delays etc

[IanFromHKG]

Interesting

BA has the ability to plan their operations how they wish. There is no particular reason, apart from a commercial (financial) one, for them to cancel that route in preference to any other. It appears in this case that they have decided well in advance to cancel one particular route. Are there alternative options on other carriers? If so, I think they should reroute on that carrier. If not…

We are getting well outside the areas of my expertise. I do recommend you contact expert lawyers to advise on your rights.

[FDOS_UK]

Ian, they’ve used the argument that domestic pax (and even some European pax) have more options that long haul pax, so they protect the latter schedule at the cost of the former.

They will also state that the cancellation is caused by ATC actions arising from weather and thus they are blameless.

As a matter of principle, I’m with you, but from a pragmatic perspective, this battle can be hard to win.

Probably the best option is to contact a no win no fee specialist and see what they say.

[canucklad]

My mates sister, brother in law and 2 kids where returning home to Newcastle from a holiday in New York.
Their inbound BA flight was late making them miss their scheduled connection to Newcastle. The next flight was full so they had to spend virtually the whole day in T5
They eventually arrived back in Newcastle 8 hours later than scheduled.

They’re not experienced travellers and when I asked about refreshment vouchers and EU261 I just received a blank look back.

You wonder how many other people, through their ignorance let BA and others off the hook!!

[BIllyBleach]

Just wait for the day and see if other carriers fly out of INV on that day. Surely then the “exceptional” claim will carry very little weight.

[AMcWhirter]

Canucklad – Pity your friends never opted for KL via AMS.

[SimonS1]

@JamieStapleton (now BillyBleach) – I think you have missed the point.

Firstly the day has been and gone. Also it was nothing to do with Inverness, the slot restrictions were in London….

[MrMichael]

SimonS1, who is JamieStapleton, what did he say?

[SimonS1]

Changed his name to BillyBleach now I see.

[AnthonyDunn]

BIllyBleach – 06/06/2016 10:17 BST

That’s not how it works. BA operates into LHR which is particularly subject (BT postings passim and ad nauseam) to flow-rate restrictions when weather and other circumstances require an increase in the horizontal separation of flights. Even when applied over just a couple of hours, the knock-on in terms of delays and cancellations very quickly snowball owing to the place operating at 98% of capacity.

It may be that EZY into LGW has no such issue on the same day because of different weather circumstances in Sussex. I dare say that the same would apply to other operators into other UK regional airports.

As a user of BA’s new LHR-INV service (as well as the EZY LGW-INV services), I am interested in the outcome of this one lest I now need to start planning a contingency.

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