With the recent announcement of a series of strikes by British Airways cabin crew, it’s no surprise that many people due to travel on the planned strike date are worried about their holiday or trip plans. The walkouts, scheduled for three days from Saturday, March 20 and for four days from March 27, are expected to bring widespread disruption to flights from airports across the UK. As well as possible problems at flight destinations with Unite asking other Unions to join in and boycott their services they provide to BA.
BA have been working on a contingency plan to flight the disruption and has up to 1,000 volunteer staff ready to work as cabin crew, including hundreds of pilots. They hope to operate all flights from London City Airport, all long-haul flights from Gatwick and 50 per cent of short-haul flights from the West Sussex airport. BA says. “At Heathrow, a “substantial” number of long and short-haul services will operate during the strikes.”
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