CK
ScanFlyer Mile High Club
Det er krise i BA (også)
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BA facing ‘fight for survival’
(Source : Financial Times, June 01, 2009)
BA CE Willie Walsh has warned the airline’s 41,000 staff that the group “is in a fight for survival”. The carrier is seeking to extract big concessions and productivity savings from its workforce, and is seeking to inject fresh urgency into negotiations with its unions and in particular with cabin crew. It is continuing to cut thousands of jobs, with 2,500 posts eliminated since last summer. Conflict with cabin crew brought the airline to the brink of a strike in early 2007 costing tens of millions of pounds. Walsh said two weeks ago that there had been “little progress” in negotiations with cabin crew. A ballot on a package of reforms is under way among ground services staff and Walsh said both engineering workers and pilots were expected to launch ballots soon. He told the BA staff newspaper “the crisis facing our industry has never been more serious . . . There has been a significant shift in consumer attitude, with people wanting more and paying less. And things are getting worse. We haven’t yet reached the bottom, and everything points towards a protracted downturn.”
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