Just back from CRC having turned up for my VCC trip this morning. Neither of us as VCCs were required as eight of the rostered crew turned up as normal, including the CSD and one Purser. Everyone was very upbeat and raring to go.
I stuck around for a couple of hours just in case they got short on another trip, but by the time I left (10:45), only 2 VCCs had been used on the TLV. Every other trip had gone out crewed entirely by normal cabin crew.
Looks like the 65% figure of crew turning up yesterday is on the increase today.
BA are saying they have a very robust operation but are looking at re-instating additional services once they are confident they can continue to run them consistently throughout the rest of the strike period. I expect they will announce a larger schedule for the next 5 days of strike action when the schedule is published tomorrow.