Perhaps you're more knowledgeable than I regarding this, but in the example you give here, "we had booked our flight earlier" is a single condition. In the question you ask, "Nothing you could have done" specifies ALL POSSIBLE CONDITIONS. Again, this doesn't seem to fit into the definition of a conditional, as I understand it, but grammar is not my strong point.
Is "You couldn't have done anything to change the course of events." a conditional? Because, to me, it means exactly the same thing as your original statement.