On July 28, 2022, Jet Blue flight 2822 was supposed to leave West Palm Beach (PBI) at 15:40 with destination of Boston (BOS). Passengers were allowed to check in, and the monitors at PBI stated that the flight was On-Time. However, Flightradar24 and other similar websites noted that the flight had been canceled.
Shortly thereafter the check-in counter confirmed that the flight was indeed canceled. Reasons behind the cancelation were vague. Finally, passengers were told the flight had been canceled due to FAA advisories about thunderstorms in Boston and that they were being rescheduled for a Jet Blue flight the next day.
As frequent fliers know, if a flight is delayed or canceled due to aircraft or staffing problems, the airline must put them up overnight in a hotel and provide them with a food vouchers. Actual compensation varies with the airline. However, if the flight is delayed or canceled due to force majeure, the airline is not obligated to provide any help.
Of course, a passenger must rely on what the airline says; however, how can it be that Delta flight 1279 left West Palm Beach (PBI) with a scheduled departure at 15:45, 5 minutes later than the planned Jet Blue departure? Deltas actual final departure was at 16:36, with destination Boston (BOS). Both, Delta and Jet Blue had the same destination and equipment (A320 family aircraft). After Covid, airlines had to cut back and, are still short-staffed. So was Jet Blue flight 2822 from PBI to BOS on the July 28, 2022 canceled due to weather, or was weather just an excuse not to provide passengers with any help?
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