I can not get my head around this
Not just the current BA strike,but all others
BA currently it has cost them £42M or 2800 staff salaries?
They could have left the flights fully crewed without dropping one member of staff (to save money) and be better off?
They're taking the long view that the hit now will allow them to re-balance to a more sensible CC cost base and kill off the militant and cancerous Spanish practices that still go in BA but are absent in new start companies. It will allow them to become more competitive. The restrictive practices are what's holding BA back and BASSA will not give up it's power willingly.
Question : How dumb and out of touch with commercial reality would you have to be, to have your CEO's face printed on your (covered) arse and be filmed doing so? Anyone with that mindset ought not to be looking after me on board.