A school teacher friend flew to the UK with ba and is due to return to Germany this weekend - with a party of schoolchildren.
Fortunately both ba's website and telephone answering service have been providing a first class information service about this stupid strike and I was quickly able to confirm that my friend's flight will be operated at the scheduled time, but by another airline.
I cannot believe that people as seemingly intelligent as ba cabin crew are subjecting themselves to the 'Red Robbo' socialists running their union. TV images of sour, granite-faced union 'leaders' talking in harsh Northern accents takes me back to the early 1980s and the miners' strike.
They didn't win, nor will Unite.
For heaven's sake, wake up and get a reality check, ba cabin crew. Your Ts and Cs are pretty damn good and Unite will only destroy you.
Fortunately my long haul business class flight next week is with another airline....
Somehow I cannot imagine that the Roz Hanbys of this world would have gone on a strike called by some jumped-up union nobody back in the days when BOAC was a proud company with high standards of cabin service.
Incidentally, there have NEVER been 3 €uros to the £. The €uro was probably worth about £0.67 at its weakest and is now around £0.90.