It sounds daft I know saying it will soon be Easter when we haven’t yet got into March but I realised there must be another holiday coming up as British Airways Cabin Crew have just  voted in favour of strike action again. If you remember last time the voted this way it was just before Christmas.Obviously although the union haven’t announced and strike dates yet they have a liking for these holiday periods. They seem to think that if they can cause as much disruption and inconvenience to the travelling public as possible people might just might start to feel sorry for them. I don’t think that is likely some how do you?  They have been down this route before and were stopped at the last minute by the courts because of irregularities in the voting but instead of using the ensuing time to get into serious negotiations neither the management nor the union officials seemed to have had the sense to get sat down together in some nice comfortable recliner chairs and to try and talk through the situation. It does seem to me that there has got to be some compromising on both sides. British Airways are according to the latest figures loosing money every quarter and the  management obviously must make some savings some where to avoid the total collapse of the company. From the unions point of view surely it would be better to have a slight reduction in the numbers working each flight rather than all staff loosing their jobs completely because the airline closes down. As they go to sleep on their mattresses each night why don’t these people reflect on the fact that times change situations change and as a result they might have to. At the start of the 1990’s British Airways was the worlds leading airline really living up to there own advertising claim and a lot of staffing levels were set  then. Then came the  advent of low cost no frills flights with the likes of Ryan Air and Easy Jet who hit right at the heart of the British Airways operations. Then with the struggling world economy companies cut back both on senior staff flying and also the class that they flew in and BA were hit from all sides. I’m not saying management are blameless for the situation in which the company  now finds itself  but they now have to resolve a very difficult situation and I feel certain that the management team in place now will be strong enough to take on this dispute and win it at all costs. So wouldn’t it be sensible for every one to accept that however much they dislike it change must happen and the quicker a compromise  is reached the better, no strike I can think of has even seen workers  or management coming out at the other end of the dispute any better off and I see no reason why this one will be any different. According to some reports pilots and crew on the flight  deck are willing to perform duties normally carried out by cabin crew, if that happens the bad feeling that will build up and at the end of the dispute working relationships will be very strained. So isn’t it time that unions management and every one involved in this complicated situation acted sensibly thought about the long term future and most of all thought about their customers, any more publicity about this just even suggesting strike action will make sure that the public book their  flights with anyone but BA and very quickly there will be no company to manage no flights requiring cabin crew and lots of other people out of work but I suppose the full time union officials will have another dispute to move on to somewhere else. Why don’t they just get back to doing the job serving the public properly helping that person in the wheelchair trying to board the plane and perhaps reflect that if they aren’t more sensible the could be in a situation like those very unfortunate 1600 people who finished working for Corus in Redcar last week and that was no way their fault, anyone of those workers would give anything to have a  job as a cabin crew member on British Airways