British Airways cabin crew have voted for a 12 day strike that will hit many passengers over Christmas and the New Year causing chaos for millions of travellers. The planned walkout of 12,500 cabin crew staff will find many people scrambling for tickets on other airlines as people try to complete their journey. The strike will go ahead if BA management and Unite representatives fail to reach a compromise in the next week over an argument against BA’s cost cutting plans.
If the planned strike goes ahead it will be another crippling blow for the airline that is currently fighting for survival, the loss they would incur will add greatly to their current losses of £401 million for the twelve months to March 2009, its expect the company’s total losses to reach £6.8 billion.
Currently around 910,000 passengers are booked to fly with BA on the strike dates, which is about 65,000 a day, previously when strikes have occurred BA have arranged alternative airlines if space was available or refunded passengers they could not, it’s expected that could cost the company at least £80 million.
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