As Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say “It just goes to show, it’s always SOMETHING.” Many travelers – and travel agents – found out late last week that Lufthansa pilots had a four day strike planned for Feb 22-25, which made for a wild and worrisome weekend. As it turned out, the pilots did strike, but [...]
Now the airline faces a strike at potentially the worst time of year — the Christmas holidays. While to some degree British Airways is being held hostage by their unions, even now, their efforts leave much to be desired. Specifically, the airline has not yet announced a strike schedule, even though they knew this threat was coming. (The strike vote was taken last week, and all indications were it was going to be in favor of the “job action.”)