The long ongoing dispute between British Airways and its cabin crew seems to have no end. In fact, the two parties have just recently returned back to the High Court in London. The dispute between these two sides could end up affecting millions of travelers.

Right now it appears that Unite, the union that is representing the British Airways cabin crew, is seeking a permanent injunction, which would prevent the airline from imposing cost cutting proposals, which came into effect before Christmas. British Airways believes that they have not done anything that is not within its rights to do so.

However, the union claims that any changes would breach employee contracts, which were previously agreed between the company and employee representative. This big case between British Airways and the Unite union is expected to last for some five days, if not longer.

During this time, Unite has been re-balloting its 12,000 cabin crew members for industrial action. The results of this re-ballot are due February 22^nd. The last case of industrial action, which was suppose to take place during Christmas, was blocked by British Airways when they took it before the High Court. The court went on to rule that the ballot was illegal, because it included people that no longer worked for British Airways.

On British Airways’ side of things, the carrier is expected to report very heavy losses for its fourth financial quarter of 2009. Experts point out that this is the main reason why British Airways has been attempting to make changes to their working conditions. The carrier is doing all it can to save money in order to not close down.

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