British Airways begins cancelling hundreds of flights ahead of further strike action

Balpa said it"set a gap between the first and second periods of strike action to give BA time to work with us to settle this dispute with their pilots".

"We had today been exchanging new ideas to do that via Acas and so it's irresponsible and inconsiderate to its customers that BA has pulled out and decided to start cancelling flights now, just to save money on compensation." A spokeswoman for BA said:"We have put forward new ideas through Acas this week and have called on Balpa to meet us face to face as soon as possible to return to negotiations.

"However, we need to give our customers certainty, so we have contacted all those affected by the union's strike on September 27."ahead of this week's walkout, many passengers complained about difficulties contacting the airline, while some were sent cancellation emails in error. The airline said it had added extra staff to its customer relations teams and had up to 900 people answering phones at peak times.

They should go work for Ryan Air if their high pay and benefits isn’t good enough

That's Unions for you !

These pilots earn £167,000 a year!

12 mantis men have been murded since you began reading this sentence but the media don’t ever cover this FREE THE MANTIS MEN!!!!

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