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Was this because the aircraft was going to be seriously delayed in its departure time from BRS because of French industrial action?Marseille got cancelled today due to crew going over their hours.
Sadly the passengers had already checked in and reached departures.
French ATC causing problems.
The Marseille was scheduled to depart at 1345. Looking at the arrivals board it seems either the aircaft from Split or the one from Paris CDG was due to operate the MRS - both were 319s as would have been the MRS. Split due 1255 was 42 minutes late arriving and CDG also due 1255 was 30 minutes late arriving according to the BRS website. Are crew hours so tight with easyJet that even a relatively small delay leads to crews being out of hours? The turnaround time is 50 minutes too, longer than is often the case with easyJet.
MRS was cancelled earlier in the week because of the French industrial action. If easyJet is finding crewing tight at busy times I wonder why EZY 6101 took off at 1230 for an hour's flight before returning to BRS at 1330 (actually arrived a few minutes late). Was this a fear of flying flight? Whatever it was operated whilst a scheduled rotation was cancelled.
A few years ago easyJet regularly cancelled flights (usually amongst the last rotations of the day) on summer weekends, partly it was said because of crewing issues. I hope that situation is not about to return.