{"id":97167513,"date":"2010-08-23T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/move-over-british-airways-virgin-atlantic-facing-a-strike-of-their-own\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T12:12:00","slug":"move-over-british-airways-virgin-atlantic-facing-a-strike-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/move-over-british-airways-virgin-atlantic-facing-a-strike-of-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over British Airways; Virgin Atlantic Facing a Strike of Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/virgin_atlantic.JPG\" alt=\"Virgin Atlantic strike possible this week. \" title=\"Virgin Atlantic strike possible this week. \" width=\"164\" height=\"127\" align=\"left\" \/> As the ongoing saga between British Airways and their cabin crew members heads into its 19th month, now comes news Virgin Atlantic might see strikes of their own.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHundreds of Virgin pilots are expected to vote on a walk out as soon as this week if a new deal is not agreed upon between the carrier and the pilots union.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday between Virgin Atlantic and the British Airline Pilots&#39; Association (Balpa) to work on a new contract. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe two sides are arguing over the union&#39;s claim that the airline has denied pilots to a certain amount of time off that was already agreed upon by both sides.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/source\/2010\/08\/23\/will-pilots-bring-virgin-atlantic-to-its-knees\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Wall Street Journal <\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the ongoing saga between British Airways and their cabin crew members heads into its 19th month, now comes news Virgin Atlantic might see strikes of their own. &nbsp; Hundreds of Virgin pilots are expected to vote on a walk out as soon as this week if a new deal is not agreed upon between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}