British Airways Christmas strike curbed by court ruling

There must be so many people who breathed a big sigh of relief today when British Airways won a High Court injunction blocking a 12 day cabin crew strike that would have brought Christmas travel chaos to almost one million travellers.

British Airways said it was "delighted for our customers that the threat of a Christmas strike has been lifted by the court."

There must have been a giant cheer by hundreds of thousands of families in the UK and around the world.

The strike had been planned for December 22 to January 2 and threatened to ground much of the BA fleet and would have brought travel chaos to hundreds of thousands of passengers.

I do hope the BA cabin crew look at the Globespan collapse this week and see that their union leaders could have risked the entire BA company going under. When the Royal Mail recently striked many companies found alternative postal arrangements and haven't gone back to using Royal Mail, costing the Royal Mail thousands of pounds in revenue. BA can ill afford any financial loses at the moment. Do BA staff really believe that striking and risking the wrath of a disgruntled public, would bring them job security?