Walnut
Having been involved in scheduling with Balpa before retirement I can envisage major disruption occurring on restart. By withdrawing return flights on strike days the airline has neatly got a/c in the right position and not overloaded with a/c Lhr/Lgw, Also pilots downroute are able to restart services on Wednesday , but then the problem starts. Returning L/H pilots will probably miss their next service due to minimum base turnaround and S/H pilots on tours will have missed their next part of the tour with no one initially able to operate those parts Chaos
One tactic which would improve any future actions effectiveness would be to call single days strikes from midday to midday., This would nicely mix up the a/c. Particularly if the single days strikes had a period of midday to Midday working
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