British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding most of the a...
LONDON - British Airways pilots began a 48-hour strike on Monday, grounding most of the airline’s flights and disrupting thousands of travelers’ plans in unprecedented industrial action over a pay dispute.
The British Airline Pilots Association last month gave the airline notice of three days of industrial action in September, in what is the first ever strike by BA pilots.BALPA has said that British Airways should share more of its profits with its pilots. BA has said the strike action is unjustifiable as its pay offer was fair.
“This strike will have cost the company considerably more than the investment needed to settle this dispute,” BALPA General Secretary Brian Strutton said in a statement on the eve of the strike. Last Thursday, the airline dismissed a new offer by BALPA as an “eleventh hour inflated proposal” that was not made in good faith. BALPA had said it would have called off the strikes this week if BA had engaged with the offer.Asked about the strike action, a spokeswoman for British Airways said: “We remain ready and willing to return to talks with BALPA.”
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