{"id":97167905,"date":"2010-03-20T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-cabin-crew-strike\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T10:53:43","slug":"british-airways-cabin-crew-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/british-airways-cabin-crew-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways Cabin Crew Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of British Airways&#8217; cabin crew have official gone on strike. Employees walked off the job as of midnight Saturday and plan to take off for the remainder of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The strike will affect tends of thousands of passengers and is also planned for next weekend as well if both sides can not come to an agreement on a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous airline strikes that shut down all flights, BA is still going to run at 60 percent capacity since not all union members are planning to strike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier, customers are eligible to get refunds or rebook flights as long as they are on the same route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are concerned that your flight might be affected, check out British Airways official website (www.BritishAirways.com) for up to the minute news and flight information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishairways.com\/travel\/strike-ballot\/public\/en_gb?refevent=HOME_URGENT_CENTRE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Airways<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Wikimedia <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Thousands of British Airways&#8217; cabin crew have official gone on strike. Employees walked off the job as of midnight Saturday and plan to take off for the remainder of the weekend. &nbsp; The strike will affect tends of thousands of passengers and is also planned for next weekend as well if both sides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":97218035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167905","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=97167905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97218036,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167905\/revisions\/97218036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97218035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}