don't forget, there is a chance that it was upline weather that caused the cancellation. for example if XXXX is scheduled for the day a flight FLL to JFK to RIC to JFK to BOS to JFK to ORD (i'm not even sure if B6 serves all of these airports just examples) if there is a thunderstorm in FLL that delays that flight.....all of the downline flights will be delayed... in the same example, there is a freak snowstorm in RIC (again no weather at JFK so the cabbie's story about it being nice out all day is correct) and the RIC to JFK portion cancels the already delayed JFK to BOS flight will now cancel as well as the BOS/JFK AND THE JFK/ORD flights. of course B6 will try their best to swap the equipment, but there's not always an extra airplane just sitting around for when this happens.
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