Roland Perry wrote:
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.

Depends on load factor for other flight and if the other daily flight left
after the "cancelled" one.

For the crew, wouldn't it have been better to have *some* passengers which
would have helped take their mind off the trauma ? For instance, take 50% of
the scheduled pax, and add a psychiatrist to talk to crew between the service
and during crew rest periods.

Passengers would have to know about the crew's experience and asked to
volunteer for that flight.