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It seems today’s final BACF LCY-IBZ-LCY rotation is cancelled because of earlier delays with the allocated aircraft’s operations and that the IBZ-LCY flight would not arrive back at LCY until well after the LCY curfew.
Are curfew reasons for cancellations extraordinary circumstances?
Surely it’s the cause of the earlier delays that is relevant rather than the curfew. The curfew time hasn’t changed.
The same happened again yesterday, it seems BACF really want to avoid a sunday night diversion to Gatwick or Stansted.
I don’t have access to Expertflyer so can’t check details there.
So it will be a commercial decision – sounds like they’d sooner fly the aircraft back empty so long as to LCY. The restricted LCY aircraft types are probably harder to use for runs needing bigger aircraft from other airports they could divert to.
Also sounds like they’ll do that so as to make the aircraft still able to make it back even empty for lucrative morning flights out of LCY especially on a Monday?
Thx @LL. Yes it does look like commercial decisions.
On Saturday aircraft G-LYN operating IBZ-LCY was not going to make it back to LCY before the lunchtime curfew.
It was diverted to LGW and then positioned to STN.Meanwhile G-LCAF routing LCY-FLR-STN was cancelled on saturday because the aircraft was required for LCY-JMK on Sunday to replace G-LCYN.
Thx @LL. Yes it does look like commercial decisions.
On Saturday aircraft G-LYN operating IBZ-LCY was not going to make it back to LCY before the lunchtime curfew.
It was diverted to LGW and then positioned to STN.Meanwhile G-LCAF routing LCY-FLR-STN was cancelled on saturday because the aircraft was required for LCY-JMK on Sunday to replace G-LCYN.
@Richie – even if these were commercial decisions, it still doesn’t address your original post above from a couple of weeks ago. There answer is that, as always with these situations, it depends on the specific circumstances of each case. If a curfew is cited as the proximate cause of a delay or cancellation it might well constitute ‘extraordinary circumstances’ in much the same way as ATC weather related flow restrictions force airlines to make commercial decisions about which flights to cancel while still being allowed to avoid 261 compensation payouts. Crew running out of hours can similarly be a complex area. These are claims that can be tough to argue at CEDR or MCOL, particularly when the Court isn’t supposed to analyse the minutiae of any cancellation.
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