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British Airways will operate all its long-haul services to and from Heathrow during a 3-day cabin crew strike this week and cancel a small number of short-haul flights, the airline has announced. Members of the Unite union will take industrial action from Thursday in a long-running dispute over pay. BA cancelled 44 flights last week because of a 48-hour stoppage by members of the mixed fleet, made up of workers who have joined the airline since 2010. BA said: “We will operate all our long-haul services to and from Heathrow and all services to and from Gatwick, London City and Stansted. We will merge a small number of our short-haul services at Heathrow, resulting in the cancellation of only 1% of our total scheduled flights across the 3 days." <br/>

Cathay Pacific Airways plans to shorten its fuel-hedging program and revamp its workforce as part of a new business strategy to halt a slide in earnings. The carrier "won't hedge as far forward as we have in the past" and will "rethink its workforce," COO Rupert Hogg said Monday. The airline plans to reassign employees from some outdated roles to new jobs that are better aligned with a "digital focus" while "never saying never" to redundancies, Hogg said. Cathay Pacific is set to unveil a new strategy Wednesday following a "critical review" of its business as mounting competition from Chinese and Middle Eastern carriers caused the airline in October to scrap its second-half outlook. CE Ivan Chu, who took the helm in March 2014, had said the carrier planned to continue with its fuel hedges. <br/>