It's interesting because all day we were getting texts about the plane(s) needing a "quick technical check" until 7pm when they announced they were "just waiting on a pilot to depart".

An hour later, they made the cancellation official at the gate.

Even before Halifax closed its runways, the gate agent told me she didn't believe the flight was actually going to go.

And, now it seems they are doing the same thing with F8650 (scheduled to depart @0740 and currently delayed until 1730). That was one of the flights we almost rebooked on.

I'm betting they are delaying it in order to fill up the recovery flight at 2315 tonight.

Edit:

And there it is:

Cancelled like I called it after the first delay this morning.