British Airways Statement On Unite Strike - 15.20 21-Mar-2010
21-Mar-2010 Our contingency plans are continuing to work well on Sunday at all airports around the world.
Our revised schedule of departures at Heathrow and Gatwick is going as planned and many aircraft are now departing full.
We continue to operate a full Boeing 777 longhaul programme from the UK to more than 30 destinations around the world and are adding in several extra Boeing 747 flights, due to the numbers of crew reporting for work. Details are available on ba.com.
This is on top of the nine extra longhaul flights we added into the schedule last night and will include again today.
We have also added additional shorthaul flights into our schedule at both Heathrow and Gatwick and customers can now book onto these flights.
Our charter operators are also continuing to work well with good punctuality levels. These flights are being integrated with our own shorthaul flying schedules at Heathrow and Gatwick.
On Sunday, cabin crew are continuing to report as normal at Gatwick, and Heathrow levels remain above what we need to operate our published schedule.
We continue to offer the fullest support to our cabin crew who want to work as normal.
All of our flights at London City remain unaffected.