It seems that British Airways just cannot seem to get itself back on track and away from cabin crew strikes. In fact, the cabin crew from the airline have just recently started fresh five-day strikes as the dispute about pay, jobs and working conditions continues. The walkout will run along with the half-term holiday and could be followed by yet another five-day strike on June 5^th.

Talks between the airline and the Unite union, which is the union representing the cabin crew, ended last Friday without any kind of agreement being reached. The conciliation service Acvas said that talks between the two sides adjourned and it would now try to arrange yet more negation time.

British Airways said that it hopes to operate more flights during the coming days than it did in the previous week. The chief executive of the airline, Willie Walsh, said that they hope to run about 70 percent or more of their long haul flights. This is a big improvement from the 60 percent that was run a week earlier.

The airline also noted that it hopes to run about 55 percent or more of its short haul flights. This, is a 5 percent increase over what was run last week. The airline said that it will be able to increase the number of flights that get off the ground because more than expected cabin crew members turned up for work as normal, meaning that these members did not take part in the ongoing strike.

Unite said that they would call off the strike if the airline would bring back travel perks for the crew members that took part in the first set of strikes. The airline said that they would bring back their travel perks, but only if these members are treated as new recruits.

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