British Airways Christmas strike set to disrupt 1 million people

[Lars77]

Source: The Guardian

The holiday plans of nearly 1 million British Airways passengers have been thrown into chaos after cabin crew voted for a 12-day strike over Christmas and New Year.

The walkout by 12,500 cabin crew between 22 December and 2 January will ground Heathrow airport's largest carrier and will spark a scramble for tickets on rival airlines as passengers are forced to find alternative means of completing their journeys.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/14/british-airways-christmas-strike

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. The plans have been thrown into chaos by BA's ownership's intransigence

and continued exploitation of the company's labor force.

[Odin2005]

2. That will be good for the union's public image, NOT.

:banghead:

[FarCenter]

3. It won't affect high-margin business travel very much

Since business travelers tend to not fly during the holidays anyway.

This will affect mostly the bargin ticket vacationers.

[WriteDown]

4. So much for "I'll be home for Christmas." nt

[DFW]

5. I fly transatlantic a LOT

Good thing I never use BA for the Europe-USA legs. I usually use Air France or Air Berlin, and although
Air France has had their share of strikes, I have never been caught out by one of them--yet, anyway. I'm
sure my karma debt will come due at some point.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. it's always the poor innocent passengers never the big fat boss

the cabin crew should demand the CEO of BA hand over his money

[johnfranklin]

7. the response

people are SHOCKED by the timing of this strike. this is bad news for BA and for those with plans to fly them: http://bit.ly/66pZ7F