BA guarantees all flights even in face of strike
BRITISH Airways will be able to guarantee all of its flights should there be any new strike action, the company’s chief executive Willie Walsh has promised.
“If in case of a strike 100 per cent of flights will, as we believe, be guaranteed, British (Airways) will not only not lose money it will end up saving,” he said.
The days when the trade unions could ground airway companies were gone, he said.
Walsh said flight personnel costs had been cut by 45 per cent. “In terms of annual savings the benefit to the company is 65 million pounds per year. For now.
Walsh said the credit crunch had forced BA to cut its flight capacity by about 10 per cent. “At the moment we have recouped about 1.5 per cent of the lost quota,” he said.