Apparently talks between British Airways and the Unite union have been adjourned until today (Friday). This means that talks aimed at resolving the conflict between the two parties did not take place yesterday and brought neither side close to an agreement.

Willie Walsh, the British Airways chief executive, met with leaders of Unite Wednesday night in a renewed bid to reach a settlement. The talks, at a secret location, lasted for six hours and are expected to resume today. The first wave of three five day strikes enters its fourth day on Thursday. Unless a breakthrough in talks happens, the next round of strikes will start on Sunday, and last until June 9^th.

So far hundreds of flights have been grounded since Monday due to the strikes. This does include a total of 246 flights in and out of Heathrow Wednesday and over 200 on Tuesday. Both sides of the battle remained strong willed before the negotiations.

The Unite union leaders went on to repeat an earlier offer to Mr Walsh that they would suspend the strikes if the airline would reinstate travel concessions that were withdrawn from staff who walked out in March during the first strikes. Tony Woodley from Unite said that the offer is on the table. Mr Walsh can have this strike suspended right now if he returns the travel concessions to the staff that took part in the first strike without loss of seniority.

Walsh has offered to restore travel perks to cabin crew, but only if striking crew are treated as new recruits. This would give non-striking employees better access to the prized discounted travel for British Airways staff.

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