It seems to me that we're now at the end of this dispute from a passengers perspective.
The improtant details to me are:
- 2560 members have left BASSA/Unite since BA asked for the CSD to work harder.
- A minority of cabin crew now support industrial action
- Only a fraction of those who vote yes ever actually strike
- many more will not want to lose Staff travel etc and will work
- VCC's are trained and ready to go
- Mixed fleet is up, running, and expanding
- The public knows only a small number of shorthaul flights at LHR will be affected
- The public knows in the unlikely event of a cancellation they will get re-booked onto other services
For all the huff and puff of the union, this is a non event, and I'm no longer concerned about how industrial action will affect my travel plans..
And if BASSA play "guerilla" and threaten a strike, but then dont strike, then my travel plans are equally not affected.. would be more of a "monkey action" than "guerillla action" from my point of view.
This Game is over BASSA... you have nowhere else to go.
The only two questions now left are:
- How much longer it takes BASSA to realise they have lost, and
- How BA chooses to deal with this militant residue.... I know what I would do...