Sorry TopBunk but I' don't see how this is BASSA b****x - Crewfriend (if the forums are to be believed) is British Airways cabin crew and it is time that cabin crew started to accept a huge proportion of the blame for this mess. It was cabin crew after all that voted 4 to 1 in favour of the strike action earlier this year (and that was after the Xmas 2009 debacle so they were well aware of what they were doing).
Perhaps we should start to consider that Crewfriend may well be far more representative of BA cabin crew than Litebulbs or Betty Girl, even if we find Crewfriends views out of touch with reality and bizarre for someone who is in such a service oriented industry. Certainly spikes in sickness rates amongst Cabin Crew is nothing new. Always seem to get lots of hay fever sufferers at the same time as Royal Ascot.
Like any other profession there are good and bad and excellent and poor employees within BA cabin crew. But it is cabin crew that voted overwhelmingly for the initial strike and it is in cabin crews hands to vote "no" to further strike action. Blaming Bassa for everything is rather missing the point of who actually voted for industrial action in the first place.