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s.sympatico.ca, Raffi
Balmanoukian a writes
If the airline is going to have the laudable policy of
accommodating that, they should have enough redundancy at a major gateway
like LAX so that a 747-load isn't prejudiced as a result.

It looked to me as if they did - weren't all the passengers accommodated
same day on other flights? So the actual cash cost would only have been
any compensation paid for the delay - the exact same number of people
and planes made the trip - just that all the paying passengers were on
planes other than the one with just the affected crew.
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Roland Perry