The news is coming thick and fast.
British Airways has accepted an offer from the Unite union to reopen talks on cabin crew strike action today providing there are "no preconditions".
The airline made the move as it attempts to prevent Christmas travel misery for more than a million of its passengers.
However, there are no guarantees the talks will go ahead this afternoon.
Unite has said it will only talk if BA suspends the changes it has made to cabin crew working practices and rotas - a condition the airline says it is not willing to accept.
Later today, BA will begin a legal battle to protect customers from the "massive stress and disruption" a walkout from December 22 to January 2 would cause.
BA claims there were "irregularities" in Unite's strike ballot, which render it invalid.
The case will be heard in the High Court in London.
As a back-up to the legal action, BA said its managers have been establishing which cabin crew were willing to work normally during the strike period.
Chief executive Willie Walsh said: "We are absolutely determined to do whatever we can to protect our customers from this appalling, unjustified decision from Unite.
"Unite was told about the problems with its ballot on Friday. Yet it cynically went ahead with an extreme, highly-publicised threat to our customers."
Unite announced the strikes after its ballot showed a 92% majority in favour of industrial action. Some 80% of the union's 12,500 BA cabin crew members voted.
The union is protesting at the imposition of changes to crew numbers as well as a pay freeze and plans to introduce different rates of pay and conditions for new crew members.
Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Unite, said Christmas travel on BA was being "held hostage by a macho management".
He said: "We offered to suspend any industrial action if the company would only agree to suspend its imposition of new terms and conditions on cabin crew.
"Willie Walsh turned this offer down flat. Confrontation, not negotiation, is his approach."
Airline analyst Andrew Fitchie, of Collins Stewart, estimates the strikes would cost BA between £10m to £30m a day.
That is on top of the firm's current losses of around £1.6m a day.