British Airways strike: Airline says no flights will be cancelled due to cabin crew walkout

British Airways says its full schedule will operate on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, despite a strike by cabin crew working for its “mixed fleet” unit at Heathrow. BA’s CE, Alex Cruz, called the strike an “attempt to ruin Christmas for thousands of our customers”. He said: “Over the weekend we have been working on detailed contingency plans to ensure that we are able to operate our normal flight programme from all our airports on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day." The BA staff, who joined mixed fleet from 2010 onwards are in dispute over what they call “poverty pay”. Their pay and conditions are significantly worse than longer-serving cabin crew. Their union, Unite, says that cabin crew are forced to work even when unfit to fly, in order to earn a flying allowance of GBP3 per hour. <br/>