Turns out the two British Airway flights were cancelled because BA pilots simply implemented a prior agreement to cancel if the US insisted on placing US air marshals on a flight.
[Addendum: I inadvertently left off some salient information. The agreement is premised on the belief that the security of a flight should be established on the ground. If the US considers the flight risky enough to warrant an air marshal, the pilots' union prefers to cancel the flight as a better guarantee of safety. Best guess is the extensive checking of the passenger manifest by all interested UK and US security agencies is a compromise position.]
Posted at January 5, 2004 11:00 AMIt appears that there are some things up with which BA pilots will not put. Was this an agreement among the pilots, or an agreement with the FAA?
Are you stranded? Is some entity at least paying your bill?
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