Well, it has to to with the right to strike really. You have that right, and cleary, you would have taken it. I imagine the majority of your FD colleagues would have joined you. BALPA at BA enjoy almost 100% membership and hense a very strong negotiating point. Qutie a high percentage of posts on this thread have been from flightdeck, taking the moral high ground about strikes affecting customers, when it is not them that are taking action.

Of course not - but very much in my interests.

BA only responds to credible threats and the BALPA pension campaign delivered exactly that - a guarantee that if WW and team wanted to push us to the limit then we would have "withdrawn our labour".

The phrase I used at the time was "no pilots = no 'planes, no passengers, no profits"

It worked............

Strike Off
 

BBC Radio just announced (14h00 GMT) that this week's strike is called off.

TV news the same... not official yet???

BA CC Strike is OFF !!!
 

Apparently the strike has been called off, as per a text I have just seen, from w/in BA.
Excellent news, (if it is correct ...) and now everyone can hopefully get on with sorting thru the finer points (like EG300/attendance policy)
A very pleased (and relieved) Kiwi1 (I like my job :-)) ) !!
:E :ok: :E

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6309471.stm

Union calls off BA strike action

A planned two-day strike by thousands of British Airways cabin crew has been called off, the airline has said.
Talks between BA and the Transport and General Workers Union had been going on to try and avert the stoppages on Tuesday and Wednesday.

BA executives and union leaders said an agreement had been reached on the key issue of pay and the management of sickness absence.

BA will now attempt to reinstate as many flights as pos

Dear BASSA Members (Satan, I know you're not necessarily one),

Please don't feel sorry for us, we've already gone elsewhere. It's been a bit inconvenient to rebook, but that's a one-off, we've saved a bit of money, and confirmed what we already knew, that other airlines, including LCCs, are actually as good as or better than BA, operate the same routes and many more, and are pleased to see us.

Signed: The SLF.

PS For the same reason, please don't concern yourselves about "taking it out on the passengers". Broadly speaking, we're not stupid enough to stick around while you do that. So you go right ahead, and take it out on rows of empty seats to your heart's content, unless you're pulling a sickie. The Job Centre will be quite full, though, so enjoy all that empty space while
you can.

PPS Just read the news the strike is off. Obviously that's for the ggod. But only "this week"? Too late for most, though; we'll not be changing our bookings back again, and nor will others, I suspect.

South Africa here I come - might be a bit lonely on board?

No suprise then :D

Well I going there later in the week (and the weather looks nice, in the 90's recently but more moderate now) all 1st class taken (I am BA Mile of course) I assume by those, like me, moved from a strike day.

From BA web site:

I understand 2 very senior BASSA reps have just resigned:oh:

As reps, or from the airline?

So is this (to my simple mind) a double whammy for BA in that, having lost lots of money from passengers who have transferred to alternative carriers (and probably won't want to risk changing back), BA now will attempt to run the original schedules, which might not have any passengers on, thus spending more money on DOC's etc that they would not have spent if there had been the strike?????

Shares up
 

BA shares have gone up 12p since the announcement!
Who's buying?

Good news for everyone involved, although how much damage the dispute, getting this far, has done to BA's reputation, won't be seen for a while.

Hope the deal has been done so that the same issues don;t crop up and bring similar problems in years to come.

BA Cabin Crew Strike Off !!!!
 

Full details just reported on bbc news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6309471.stm

I'm confused - the BBC report on the link above quotes WW as saying As non-BA Cabin Crew, we've never had the opportunity to threaten strike action, cause chaos for thousands and cost our employer millions in lost revenue: Instead, we've had to concentrate on making money for the company and pleasing our customers in the hope that they will return. In our quest for higher standards of onboard service we had never considered the threat of strike action as a path to excellence - Have we made a mistake?

It will be interesting to see the details! I wonder if they will be able to sort out the problem of CC working 1-2-1 when the pilots work 3-4-4-3! Or the CC always calling a halt to duty hours when the pilots can work another hour! Or the problem of CSDs earning over 2000 pounds additional payments (and the rest of the crew a bit less) for a week doing a longhaul back-to-back one crew down (out of 14), and taking Wimbledon off, and whether BA can continue paying CC more than pilots in low cost carriers! I await with fascination. So Dogs ears, there's a BA world, and a non-BA world. The standards of behaviour (and service) are totally different- I don't think it negates the non-BA way, only one of them is in the real world! I feel nothing has been solved.

One down - now just the GMB and the baggage handlers , they will probably time that for june/july and the usual chaos during the summer holidays will be resumed .

not all are as you state, you know rainboe.
In my flying career I have never gone sick for wimbledon and in the one time in my 3 yr flying career that i have worked 1 crew member down not one of us recieved any where near the amount you quote. Please do not tar us all the same brush. suggest doing research into correct facts.