In that time of year, a lot of people will be concerned and worried about how this might impact them so take us through what we know. you ma well take us through what we know. you may well be take us through what we know. ym. may well be wondering if you are travelling this summer how this could affect you. i will come of that in a moment. let me explain what the strike is about and who is involved. 700 british airways ground workers and she can strike check in staff have voted to strike this summer. it is a row about pay, their unions gmb and unite say that british airways imposed a 10% pay cut during a pandemic which has not been reinstated. ba for its part says it has made a 10% pay offer which other staff have accepted, and it says it is disappointed by this action. it is ground workers and check in staff at the moment but the gmb union says that other workers within ba may well follow suit. t within ba may well follow suit. i don t think this is going to stop with don t thin
Inconvenienced, summer holidays are ruined, it s possible the mood will change and that might affect the way the rmt decide their next move. but at the moment, it looks, unless there is a breakthrough in the few days, is no more strikes will be called. they will carry on meeting, who knows, they might get to some kind of deal next week. but i think at the moment, the probability is, the public isjust at the moment, the probability is, the public is just about with them. going onto the british airways strike by some heathrow staff, of course it s not all staff, just under 50% of british airways customer facing staff at heathrow. so it s not all staff. but do you have a sense of what kind of disruption that may cause or the public when that goes ahead? yeah, it s mainly check-in public when that goes ahead? yeah, it s mainly check-in staff, public when that goes ahead? yeah, it s mainly check-in staff, so - it s mainly check in staff, so there will be disruption. you can t fly unless
There is huge amounts of demand, people want to travel, people want to go on holiday. but the problem is within their airports, the handling services, so for example baggage handling, check in staff, people to refuel the planes, they are not there or at least not in sufficient numbers. and that means we are starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time, and flights having to be cancelled. so what we are seeing here at gatwick today and that schiphol is an attempt to pre empt that happening over the summer. july and august in europe are the peak months, and that is why they are cutting services now, because the gamble that companies like gatwick airport are making is that you can take are making is that you can take a bit of pain now, and it saves potential chaos occurring later in the year. so that is what they are trying to do, minimise disruption by taking a hit now, but preventing lots and lots of short term cancellations when people
So, the industry is trying to ramp up services there s huge amounts of demand, people want to travel, people want to go on holiday but the problem is within the airports, the ground handling services so, for example, baggage handling, check in staff, people to refuel the planes, they are not there, or at least not in sufficient numbers. and that means we are starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time and flights having to be cancelled. so, what we are seeing here at gatwick today and at schiphol is an attempt to pre empt that happening over the summer. july and august in europe are the peak months and that is why we are cutting services now, because the gamble that companies like gatwick airport are making is that you can take a bit of pain now and it saves potential chaos occurring later in the year. so, that is what they are trying to do, minimise disruption by taking a hit now, but preventing lots and lots of short term cancel
Paying for low to different company so he could keep their staff on could come to the end so a number of companies decided to lay off staff are army recruiting them back because the industry is recovering but they cannot recruit people back quickly enough and it is notjust a question in this country, or in other countries, just going out and getting people giving the job of starting to play them. if you work in the aviation industry you need things like security clearances and those tend to take time is the industry is trying to ramp up services. there are huge amounts of the industry is trying to ramp up services. there are huge amounts of demand problem is within the airport the ground handling services, so for example baggage handling, check in staff, people to refuel the planes, they re not there are at least not in sufficient numbers and that means that they, we are starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time, and flights having to