British Airways Announces Holiday Strike: Booking Changes Info

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British Airways employees have voted nine to one in favour of a 12-day strike lasting from December 22 to January 2, over the busy Holiday season. British Airways employees chose to strike over holidays in light of recent job cuts and changes to staff contracts in an attempt by British Airways to recover record financial losses. British Airways lost $338 million last month.

British Airways released a statement saying it is working on reworking our flight schedules for the Holiday strike period and aims to announce them as quickly as possible. All affected customers will be informed via an email message or SMS text. The airline is also offering guidelines for changing bookings. The company's Chief Executive Willie Walsh released a statement calling the strike action "unjustified." He also called allegations that British Airways is intimidating workers and attacking their pay - "fiction," adding that a strike can achieve nothing except huge upset and inconvenience to customers. 

On its end, the union said it believes "the new contractual changes are an attempt to force staff to pay the price for management failings with the company wringing more and more out of fewer and fewer staff who will be paid less."

Although British Airways employees said they took the decision "with a heavy heart," many British Airways passengers were shocked by the announcement today, and a lot of disgruntled chatter followed on Twitter.

It is believed the strike can affect as many as one million passengers. 

If you are flying British Airways over the holidays and need to change your booking, call 0844 493 0787 in the UK (daily 0600-2000 local time), or go to Manage My Booking page on British Airways website.