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Any final decision has to be handed to the airline a week before employees walk out, which will give BA time to install the replacement cabin crews they've been training. Those crews include pilots, so if they've got enough substitutes they might be able to hunker down for a while.

Under normal circumstances you could expect the British public to frown on a giant corporation unflinchingly breaking a strike like that. Unite and its members, though, are facing a not insignificant optics problem. In a time when airlines are tightening their belts in the face of massive losses, BA cabin crews are paid roughly twice as much as their nearest counterparts. One way this ends is with a whole new fleet of younger, more flexible employees willing to accept less compensation.

Or as the union will inevitably put it, a whole new fleet of inexperienced, less competent employees with no commitment to the airline or its customers.

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