We'll take more care of you. But only during the World Cup
This interesting piece of news came my way via Reuters correspondents Rhys Jones and Stefano Ambrogi (Full story here).
'The union representing British Airways cabin crew said it was to ballot members on further industrial action that could disrupt summer holiday travel, as the last of three five-day strikes neared its end.
The latest strike is ending days before the start of the soccer World Cup in South Africa but BA said the action had not affected flights to the tournament.'
"Er, Fred - isn't that our flight to Johannesburg...?"
Well, that’s just fantastic news, isn’t it? So if you’re planning to go to a wedding in Wellington; a funeral in Funchal; a beach in Barbados; a holiday in Honolulu; a party in Paris; business in Bremen or some jiggy-jiggy in Bora-Bora, British Airways won’t get you there because a militant trolley-dolly is having a day off. But if you want to go and see Ingerland lose during a kickabout in South Africa – well, what do you know? All flights proceeding as scheduled. What an amazing coincidence.
I hope that Ingerland fans get their tickets and go to South Africa – better than them staying here and smashing up my local for one thing. But they’d better get booked up sharpish, before all the seats are sold to BA staff on cut-price staff rates who have booked them all for themselves. Personally I will be continuing to support Ryanair for my aviation requirements, even if it does cost me a pound to spend a penny.
Ryanair management soon discovered a unique method of recycling that
enabled them to charge passengers twice for the same service ...
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