Potentially this is worse for BASSA \ Unite than a no vote. A no vote would have been embarressing but no more.
They now have little room for manuever other than to call a strike (especially as they seem to think that 78% of CC voted for strike action
). Given that BA flew through the last strike and this time there are:
- fewer voting for strike action
- less strikers (I wouldn't expect anyone who hasn't already been on strike to start now)
- mixed fleet
- more and better trained VCC
I would not expect BA to do too much in the short term and just let BASSA \ Unite play their hand. If things fall well for BA (e.g. succesful court action against the Unions) then they will hold all the cards and can decide then how best to play them.
At worst, BA will just see out this round of strikes like the last.