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Business
Telegraph 21 May 10
British Airways has posted its biggest annual loss as it battled to cope with the biggest economic downturn in 60 years and strike action.
The airline said losses before tax jumped 32pc to £531m in the year to March 31 after revenues tumbled £1bn to £7.99bn…
News
Philip Pank and Raf Sanchez The Times 20 May 10
The British Airways cabin crew strike is set to go ahead after an emergency injunction against the walkout was overturned this morning (Thursday).
The Unite union said that the strikes could begin as early as next week after the Court of Appeal quashed an order that prevented rolling five-day walkouts throughout the early summer…
Comment
The Plastic Hippo 19 May 10
The 1892 Walsall anarchist bomb plot was foiled by spurious evidence and dubious confessions and it turned out that the entire plot was an elaborate sting organised by Special Branch. But the anarchists are back; only this time they are in the skies above us serving tea and coffee on inbound 747s overflying Walsall.
The prerogative to withdraw labour is one of the basic differences between a free society and slavery. All eight sets of legislation introduced during the Thatcher and Major years designed to curb the rights of employees and trade unions still enshrined the right to strike. That was a civil liberty too far even for the Iron Lady…
News
Express & Star 23 Mar 10
British Airways flights will start to return to normal today following the end of a three day strike by cabin crew which cost the airline around £21 million with further disruption planned. Despite the end of the action by thousands of Unite members there will be a knock-on effect on services, especially at Heathrow, which was worst affected by the walk-out…
Business news
David Millward Telegraph 22 Mar 10
Hopes of a breakthrough in the dispute between British Airways and the Unite trade union have been dashed after talks collapsed without agreement…
Transport news
David Millward Telegraph 12 Mar 10
The travel plans of tens of thousands of British Airways passengers have been thrown into disarray after the union representing 13,500 cabin crew called seven days of strikes…
Business feature
Observer 31 Jan 10
Squeezed by falling demand and rising fuel prices, the UK carrier has turned to radical plans to cut the cost of cabin crew staff. Can it succeed?
Business news
Telegraph 14 Dec 09
More than a million British Airways passengers have had their Christmas holiday travel plans thrown into chaos after the airline’s cabin crew voted to strike…