British Airways strike starts today

British Airways Strike: Its a shame that the Talks between the airline BA and the Unite union, which represents the cabin crew, collapsed on Friday.

However uncertainty still exists about just how many BA crew will go on strike.

With BA saying that any staff who took part in strike action would (quite rightly in our opinion) lose perks, including heavily-discounted travel fares.

So where are we at – lets look at Gatwick, all long-haul flights and more than half of short-haul flights are expected to operate as normal.

And at Heathrow, more than 60% of long-haul flights will operate, though only 30% of short-haul flights are expected to do so, with the help of aircraft leased from rival airlines.

A further cuaes for concern is the four days of action that is set to begin on 27 March. With BA saying this weekend’s action could disrupt flights into next week as well.

Cabin crew are striking over pay and working conditions.

BA says that 65% of passengers will still be able to reach their destination during the first three-day strike, even though a total of 1,100 BA flights out of the 1,950 scheduled to operate will be cancelled.

BA says that it is confident that it can handle 49,000 passengers on each of Saturday and Sunday, compared with around 75,000 on a normal weekend day in March.