British Airways cabin crew will walk out for seven days this month after talks between the airline and unions broke down, in a dispute analysts said could cost the airline around 140 million pounds.
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BA crew to walk out in March
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what the hell is wrong with those people
Re: BA crew to walk out in March
My dad is currently in Dubai, and went there with BA.
He's scheduled to return on the 20th. What will happen when they strike?
He's scheduled to return on the 20th. What will happen when they strike?
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either be rebooked to fly with an other airline or be on a flight with some of the 1000 newly trained cabin replacement crew
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Just for info. A bit off topic, a bit on topic : "Life-saving BA crew"
http://media.netpr.pl/pr/159655/life-sa ... eir-future
http://media.netpr.pl/pr/159655/life-sa ... eir-future
In favor of quality air travel.
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British Airways Statement on Unite strike dates
British Airways is extremely disappointed that Unite has announced plans for massive disruption for hundreds of thousands of our customers in the run-up to the Easter holidays.
Unite’s action has no shred of justification. British Airways’ crew are rightly renowned for their professionalism and skills. Our entire package for crew recognises that and is reasonable and fair.
British Airways is facing two years of record financial losses. Unlike other businesses, we have avoided compulsory redundancies and made changes designed to secure a long-term future for our company and our staff. Cabin crew face no pay cut or reduction in terms and conditions – and remain the best rewarded in the UK airline industry.
For months, Unite has been claiming that we breached individual crew members’ contracts by
making minor changes to onboard crew numbers on flights from Heathrow. We have always said this claim was false. Last month, the High Court ruled that the changes were valid and reasonable.
The changes save us more than £60m a year. We have made clear we would consider refinements of the changes, provided any additional cost was offset by other adjustments in the cabin crew budget.
To date all proposals put forward by Unite fall significantly short of saving £60m a year.
In addition, Unite’s plans would cut crew pay and allowances. The reductions required to generate sufficient savings would leave each crew member between £1,000 and £2,700 a year worse off. These proposals lack credibility, and Unite did not inform crew of them when it asked them to vote for a strike.
Should a strike take place, we will do everything we can to protect our customers’ travel plans as far as possible.
We plan to operate all British Airways’ flights from London City airport, including long-haul services to New York. From Gatwick, we plan to operate all long-haul services and about 50 per cent of short-haul. From Heathrow, we plan to operate a substantial part of our long-haul and short-haul schedule.
We are also in the process of obtaining seats on flights operated by other carriers to enable thousands of customers to fly to their chosen destinations.
We will aim to give more details four or five days before the strike is due to begin when we will announce our revised flying programme. (For further details, customers should visit ba.com or contact their travel agent.)
We will remain available for further talks with Unite at any time.
youtube video of Willie Walsh:
British Airways news release
British Airways is extremely disappointed that Unite has announced plans for massive disruption for hundreds of thousands of our customers in the run-up to the Easter holidays.
Unite’s action has no shred of justification. British Airways’ crew are rightly renowned for their professionalism and skills. Our entire package for crew recognises that and is reasonable and fair.
British Airways is facing two years of record financial losses. Unlike other businesses, we have avoided compulsory redundancies and made changes designed to secure a long-term future for our company and our staff. Cabin crew face no pay cut or reduction in terms and conditions – and remain the best rewarded in the UK airline industry.
For months, Unite has been claiming that we breached individual crew members’ contracts by
making minor changes to onboard crew numbers on flights from Heathrow. We have always said this claim was false. Last month, the High Court ruled that the changes were valid and reasonable.
The changes save us more than £60m a year. We have made clear we would consider refinements of the changes, provided any additional cost was offset by other adjustments in the cabin crew budget.
To date all proposals put forward by Unite fall significantly short of saving £60m a year.
In addition, Unite’s plans would cut crew pay and allowances. The reductions required to generate sufficient savings would leave each crew member between £1,000 and £2,700 a year worse off. These proposals lack credibility, and Unite did not inform crew of them when it asked them to vote for a strike.
Should a strike take place, we will do everything we can to protect our customers’ travel plans as far as possible.
We plan to operate all British Airways’ flights from London City airport, including long-haul services to New York. From Gatwick, we plan to operate all long-haul services and about 50 per cent of short-haul. From Heathrow, we plan to operate a substantial part of our long-haul and short-haul schedule.
We are also in the process of obtaining seats on flights operated by other carriers to enable thousands of customers to fly to their chosen destinations.
We will aim to give more details four or five days before the strike is due to begin when we will announce our revised flying programme. (For further details, customers should visit ba.com or contact their travel agent.)
We will remain available for further talks with Unite at any time.
youtube video of Willie Walsh:
British Airways news release
André
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Monday, 15 March 2010
Gordon Brown says BA strike deplorable and unjustified
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said a planned strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew would be "unjustified and deplorable".
Full article (BBC News)
Gordon Brown says BA strike deplorable and unjustified
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said a planned strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew would be "unjustified and deplorable".
Full article (BBC News)
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Times are a changin':Propwash wrote:Monday, 15 March 2010
Gordon Brown says BA strike deplorable and unjustified
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said a planned strike by British Airways (BA) cabin crew would be "unjustified and deplorable".
Full article (BBC News)
A Labour PM who calls union activities deplorable.
This is what you get in a country where the original Labour Party is taken over by career hunters such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Very little labour, very much back stabbing.
If GB continues like this, we will see that the conservatives will win the Labour heartlands.
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BA Plans Protect 60 Per Cent Of Customers
British Airways has today published contingency plans to allow 60 per cent of customers to keep flying through Unite's strike period of March 20, 21 and 22.
The schedule aims to fly around 45,000 customers each day on March 20, 21 and 22. This represents around 60 per cent of customers originally booked to fly on these days. In addition, many thousands more customers will be offered seats on alternative British Airways flights or on services operated by other airlines.
At this stage the vast majority of flights between March 23 and March 31 remain in the schedule and we will update customers due to fly during the second strike period (March 27,28, 29, 30) after the first strike period has ended.
The airline is still available to hold further talks but wants customers to have early warning of its flying schedule to allow sufficient time for alternative travel arrangements to be made.
In the first strike period, the airline will operate all longhaul flights to and from Gatwick and more than half of shorthaul flights at the airport. All flights to and from London City airport will be unaffected by the strike action.
At Heathrow the airline will continue to operate more than 60 per cent of its longhaul flights to and from the airport during the first three days of action.
The airline will operate some of its own shorthaul flights at Heathrow, and will supplement its schedule by leasing up to 22 aircraft with pilots and crews from eight different airlines based in the UK and Europe. This will enable the airline to operate around 30 per cent of its shorthaul schedule.
British Airways has also agreed with 40 other carriers that customers can be rebooked free of charge during the actual strike period onto their flights if they had been due to travel on a BA flight which has been cancelled.
Customers should check their bookings on www.ba.com to see if their flight is still operating.
Willie Walsh, British Airways' chief executive, said: "We are deeply sorry that our customers are the innocent victims of this cynical attack on their travel plans by the leaders of Unite.
"We will continue to try to prevent this strike taking place, but we have reached a point when we must now offer some clarity to our customers who have waited with great patience since Friday when the strike dates were first announced.
"Due to the numbers of cabin crew who have called in to offer their services over the weekend, the schedule will be slightly larger than we had originally anticipated.
"Despite the desire of Unite's leadership to ground the airline, the flag will continue to fly. Around 60 per cent of our customers will be able to fly as planned and many thousands more can be rebooked onto alternative BA flights or onto rival airlines.
"I recognise the frustration of customers booked for travel from March 27 onwards, when the second stoppage is due to begin, and we will do all we can to give them more clarity about their specific flight number once we start to understand just how many cabin crew are willing to work as normal.
"We remain absolutely determined to search for a sensible settlement and our door remains open to Unite, day or night. It is not too late for the Unite to call off this action and we will do all we can to reinstate some of the cancelled flights."
Customers in the UK wishing to rebook their flights can contact the airline on 0800 727 800 which is a free telephone line. British Airways has opened up an extra call centre manned by staff volunteers to help customers with rebooking and refunding queries
British Airways' flight programme is complex, involving the combination of rosters for 13,000 cabin crew, more than 3,000 pilots and 230 aircraft operating around 650 services in and out of Heathrow and Gatwick every day. More than 8,000 flight and cabin crew have to be in the right place at the right time, either on aircraft, at airports or in crew hotels in more than 140 cities in more than 70 countries, every day.
Customers are advised to check ba.com on a regular basis to see if their flight is still operating before departing for the airport. If their flight has been cancelled they should not come to the airport but contact British Airways or their travel agent.
Key points of British Airways' schedule for customers:
· More than 60 per cent of longhaul services into and out of London Heathrow will operate as planned between March 20 and March 22. The airline may be able to add to this schedule in the days ahead.
· The airline will be able to operate some of its own shorthaul flights at Heathrow. It will supplement this schedule by hiring in up to 20 aircraft with their own pilots and cabin crew. This combination will enable around 30 per cent of shorthaul flights to operate as normal. The airline may be able to add to this schedule in the days ahead.
· The airline will operate a full schedule of longhaul services at London Gatwick (to The Maldives, Tampa, Orlando, Egypt and Caribbean destinations) during the strike period. It will also operate more than half of its shorthaul network at Gatwick.
· Flights operated to and from London City will operate as normal, including services to and from New York.
· Flights operated by subsidiary OpenSkies between Paris and New York will operate as normal. Flights operated by British Airways franchise partners (Comair in South Africa and Sun Air in Scandinavia) will operate as normal. Flights operated by other carriers (including oneworld Alliance partners) which have a BA codeshare flight number will operate as normal.
· All dedicated cargo freighter services continue to operate as normal.
BA press release, Monday, March 15, 2010
British Airways has today published contingency plans to allow 60 per cent of customers to keep flying through Unite's strike period of March 20, 21 and 22.
The schedule aims to fly around 45,000 customers each day on March 20, 21 and 22. This represents around 60 per cent of customers originally booked to fly on these days. In addition, many thousands more customers will be offered seats on alternative British Airways flights or on services operated by other airlines.
At this stage the vast majority of flights between March 23 and March 31 remain in the schedule and we will update customers due to fly during the second strike period (March 27,28, 29, 30) after the first strike period has ended.
The airline is still available to hold further talks but wants customers to have early warning of its flying schedule to allow sufficient time for alternative travel arrangements to be made.
In the first strike period, the airline will operate all longhaul flights to and from Gatwick and more than half of shorthaul flights at the airport. All flights to and from London City airport will be unaffected by the strike action.
At Heathrow the airline will continue to operate more than 60 per cent of its longhaul flights to and from the airport during the first three days of action.
The airline will operate some of its own shorthaul flights at Heathrow, and will supplement its schedule by leasing up to 22 aircraft with pilots and crews from eight different airlines based in the UK and Europe. This will enable the airline to operate around 30 per cent of its shorthaul schedule.
British Airways has also agreed with 40 other carriers that customers can be rebooked free of charge during the actual strike period onto their flights if they had been due to travel on a BA flight which has been cancelled.
Customers should check their bookings on www.ba.com to see if their flight is still operating.
Willie Walsh, British Airways' chief executive, said: "We are deeply sorry that our customers are the innocent victims of this cynical attack on their travel plans by the leaders of Unite.
"We will continue to try to prevent this strike taking place, but we have reached a point when we must now offer some clarity to our customers who have waited with great patience since Friday when the strike dates were first announced.
"Due to the numbers of cabin crew who have called in to offer their services over the weekend, the schedule will be slightly larger than we had originally anticipated.
"Despite the desire of Unite's leadership to ground the airline, the flag will continue to fly. Around 60 per cent of our customers will be able to fly as planned and many thousands more can be rebooked onto alternative BA flights or onto rival airlines.
"I recognise the frustration of customers booked for travel from March 27 onwards, when the second stoppage is due to begin, and we will do all we can to give them more clarity about their specific flight number once we start to understand just how many cabin crew are willing to work as normal.
"We remain absolutely determined to search for a sensible settlement and our door remains open to Unite, day or night. It is not too late for the Unite to call off this action and we will do all we can to reinstate some of the cancelled flights."
Customers in the UK wishing to rebook their flights can contact the airline on 0800 727 800 which is a free telephone line. British Airways has opened up an extra call centre manned by staff volunteers to help customers with rebooking and refunding queries
British Airways' flight programme is complex, involving the combination of rosters for 13,000 cabin crew, more than 3,000 pilots and 230 aircraft operating around 650 services in and out of Heathrow and Gatwick every day. More than 8,000 flight and cabin crew have to be in the right place at the right time, either on aircraft, at airports or in crew hotels in more than 140 cities in more than 70 countries, every day.
Customers are advised to check ba.com on a regular basis to see if their flight is still operating before departing for the airport. If their flight has been cancelled they should not come to the airport but contact British Airways or their travel agent.
Key points of British Airways' schedule for customers:
· More than 60 per cent of longhaul services into and out of London Heathrow will operate as planned between March 20 and March 22. The airline may be able to add to this schedule in the days ahead.
· The airline will be able to operate some of its own shorthaul flights at Heathrow. It will supplement this schedule by hiring in up to 20 aircraft with their own pilots and cabin crew. This combination will enable around 30 per cent of shorthaul flights to operate as normal. The airline may be able to add to this schedule in the days ahead.
· The airline will operate a full schedule of longhaul services at London Gatwick (to The Maldives, Tampa, Orlando, Egypt and Caribbean destinations) during the strike period. It will also operate more than half of its shorthaul network at Gatwick.
· Flights operated to and from London City will operate as normal, including services to and from New York.
· Flights operated by subsidiary OpenSkies between Paris and New York will operate as normal. Flights operated by British Airways franchise partners (Comair in South Africa and Sun Air in Scandinavia) will operate as normal. Flights operated by other carriers (including oneworld Alliance partners) which have a BA codeshare flight number will operate as normal.
· All dedicated cargo freighter services continue to operate as normal.
BA press release, Monday, March 15, 2010
André
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We will see the results of the strike also in Brussels. On the 20th, 21st and 22nd of March, all flights but BA392/3 will be cancelled. The one flight remaining is the second flight of the day (STA 11.05LT and STD 12.45LT) and is to be operated by Viking Airlines Boeing 737-300.
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I guess that SN will react properly by increasing the size of its planes to/from LHR, like it did during the LH strike with its FRA flight. The 737s should have busy days during the strike.
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And United Airlines is operating a BRU-LHR with a Boeing 777 (three classes : First / Business / Economy). 
This is the schedule :
UA 929 - Departure from BRU at 6.15 am LT
UA 938 - Departure from LHR at 1.20 pm LT
This is the schedule :
UA 929 - Departure from BRU at 6.15 am LT
UA 938 - Departure from LHR at 1.20 pm LT
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This one big bird can take most of the passengers of the canceled BA flights.ExSabena wrote:And United Airlines is operating a BRU-LHR with a Boeing 777 (three classes : First / Business / Economy).
This is the schedule :
UA 929 - Departure from BRU at 6.15 am LT
UA 938 - Departure from LHR at 1.20 pm LT
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I travel BOS-LHR-BRU this Friday. As mentioned above most of the flights to BRU will be canceled. So I booked LHR-BRU through SN for Saturday. Sorry BA... no business from me...
My next flight to BOS is on 28/3 also with BA so I guess my €3500 for a bus class ticket will go to Lufthansa... Sorry BA...
BA has everything to be the best on transatlantic and they are throwing it all away.
My next flight to BOS is on 28/3 also with BA so I guess my €3500 for a bus class ticket will go to Lufthansa... Sorry BA...
BA has everything to be the best on transatlantic and they are throwing it all away.
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Lucky BXXX travelling in business.Bostontraveller wrote:I travel BOS-LHR-BRU this Friday. As mentioned above most of the flights to BRU will be canceled. So I booked LHR-BRU through SN for Saturday. Sorry BA... no business from me...
My next flight to BOS is on 28/3 also with BA so I guess my €3500 for a bus class ticket will go to Lufthansa... Sorry BA...
BA has everything to be the best on transatlantic and they are throwing it all away.
Advise: take a ZEN attitude when it goes wrong. Don't let your blood pressure kill you.
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Nothing special actually. This flight operates daily. But I guess, as mentioned above, this flight will have a 'slightly' *cough* better load factor than usual.ExSabena wrote:And United Airlines is operating a BRU-LHR with a Boeing 777 (three classes : First / Business / Economy).
This is the schedule :
UA 929 - Departure from BRU at 6.15 am LT
UA 938 - Departure from LHR at 1.20 pm LT
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Rumour:
Cathay Pacific (CX) will wet lease one (1) 744 to BA commencing this weekend for 14 days.
The wet lease B744 will operate as Speedbird 25 (LHR-HKG-LHR).
Origionally BA wanted 2 jets but Cathay Pacific (CX) can only 'supply' one (1).
Cathay Pacific (CX) will wet lease one (1) 744 to BA commencing this weekend for 14 days.
The wet lease B744 will operate as Speedbird 25 (LHR-HKG-LHR).
Origionally BA wanted 2 jets but Cathay Pacific (CX) can only 'supply' one (1).
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Cathay staff should be ashamed if they man this aircraft. They had a very painful dispute resulting in massive lay offs , I think 2 years ago.Propwash wrote:Rumour:
Cathay Pacific (CX) will wet lease one (1) 744 to BA commencing this weekend for 14 days.
The wet lease B744 will operate as Speedbird 25 (LHR-HKG-LHR).
Origionally BA wanted 2 jets but Cathay Pacific (CX) can only 'supply' one (1).
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I ownder how long it will take the unions to sabotage BAs plans to charter aircraft. Already the Dutch unions for cabin crews (VNC) said that they will send a letter to Transavia and Arkefly not to operate flights on behalf of BA (Transavia is reported to operate one 738 and Arkelfy one 763 on behalf of BA for the first two days).
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We are chartering a number of aircraft from a range of UK and European based airlines to assist with our shorthaul (UK and European) operations to and from London Heathrow.
The following airlines are being chartered for flights operating between 20 and 22 March 2010:
* Air Finland
* Arkefly
* Astraeus
* Czech Airlines
* EuroAtlantic Airways
* Jet2
* Monarch Airlines
* Ryanair
* Titan Airways
* Transavia
* Viking Airlines
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fl ... n2_charter
Ryanair is flying for BA?
The following airlines are being chartered for flights operating between 20 and 22 March 2010:
* Air Finland
* Arkefly
* Astraeus
* Czech Airlines
* EuroAtlantic Airways
* Jet2
* Monarch Airlines
* Ryanair
* Titan Airways
* Transavia
* Viking Airlines
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/fl ... n2_charter
Ryanair is flying for BA?
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