Unite: BA strike update - day 12
28-May-2010 Day 12, Friday, May 28th: Of the 333 flights BA said it was scheduled to operate today:
By 9am, 121 of these were cancelled - 20 of these are long haul and include flights to major and lucrative destinations including New York, Newark, Boston, Tel Aviv and Johannesburg.
101 Eurofleet flights were also cancelled .
BA is continuing to cancel flights to all main UK cities including Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
There is still heavy reliance on the wet-leasers and competitors to provide flights. Today they are being used on 56 flights, around one in six of BA flights. Not only do BA pay for carriers to take the passengers, they hand over the revenue from these flights too. Qantas, Iberia and Aer Lingus are the main beneficiaries today operating BA flights to Bangkok, Sydney, Melbourne, Madrid and Dublin.
The cost to BA of ending the strike is nothing as cabin crew have offered a pay cut. Today is day 12 of the strike; by its own conservative estimates the strike has now cost BA £84 million.