British Airways Upcoming Strike - 1 Week to Go

So as you all may of heard, there will be another BA "Mixed Fleet" strike between the 1st and 16th July 2017.

If you always need to keep an eye of updates on this, I would recommend to follow the "bible of anything BA" the BAEC Page on Flyertalk.

This will be a long strike and BA has said they have made plans to cover this so that no customers will be effected. They are paying hardball with the very poorly paid crew and spending more to fight this disruption instead of giving the crew their original benefits back.

The first news, is that BA have applied for a licence to operate 9 A320/A321's from Qatar (QR) during this time. This is on a wet lease this means it will also have a QR crew working on the flight, we are hoping this will include QR service too (actual free food and drinks instead of buy on board in economy).

Difference in Flight!

As most of you will know, flying on BA short haul, you will find a business class looking like this.

(Image: sourced on Business Traveler)

As you see, a normal seat with the middle

seat blocked off, nothing special sitting here. However if your a lucky person who is on one of the QR wet lease planes, you could walk on and find this.

(Image: sourced on OMAAT)

There will be a very very nice surprise for the customers. However BA customers may expect this quality in the future too.

Lets all hope that the dispute is settled, staff remain happy and and potential disruption will be prevented.

Conclusion

I will keep you updated of this and advise if there are any changes with this.