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Summer strike fears for BA after operating costs rise

JIM STANTON Evening News Online 19/05/06

BRITISH Airways could be facing another summer of industrial action as the
company revealed higher operating costs and a growing pensions gap.

Last year the company was hit by action from catering staff, baggage-
handlers, cargo workers and bus drivers, which saw more than 700 BA flights
from Heathrow cancelled.

But industry sources believe that with costs over the past year rising by
0.5 per cent and unit costs over the final quarter up by 1.8 per cent chief
executive Willie Walsh will be looking for further cost cutting leading to
the possibility of another summer of industrial action.

Full article at http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/business.cfm?id=744952006

which is Â©2006 Scotsman.com

Extract posted with kind permission of the Scotsman Group Syndications
Dept.
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