I think those two cancellations are just isolated instances. I have found another website which logs the LYS-IST route and in a span of about a month, those are the only cancellations shown.
Flights get cancelled for a variety of reasons, but cancelling simply due to insufficent passengers is not a common one. Every plane has multiple uses during the day and cancelling flight A means the plane is not in position for flight B or flight C. It also means flight crews are no longer in the right place.
Weather cancellations can come from upline, it is not only the weather where you are leaving from or going to, it could be the weather where the plane was coming from before your flight.
Why their website didn’t reflect the cancellation is anyone’s guess, perhaps poor website functionality, perhaps a cached copy on your computer, perhaps a lazy webmaster …
Rumor mongers love to champion their message, but other than shuttle flights were one plane goes back and forth all day long between a city pair, cancellations of single flights for economic reasons are rarely seen.
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