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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 10:34

Ten months, and I found myself sitting in front of British Airways, Willie Walsh, chief executive of first class cabin Was almost empty on the flight Between Boston and Heathrow Airport in London. The Walsh stateside to hold talks with analysts after the company lost a record 640 million dollars for the year ended March 31, 2009, a stunning turnaround from last year's profit of 1.5 billion dollars.

Irish, intense pressure and It Was Welch, Who Affects the relaxed patter, with interpretations of surface and generous with a bachelor's degree in graphic production and Other Safeguards. He Said That fuel prices hit a record for the company. Weak U.S. dollar, Which dropped to less than 2 dollars per pound in 2008, and the erosion of revenue from the Library of Alexandria on the Anglo-American critical ways. Disappearance of the rapid movement of the first class after the collapse of financial markets made unexpected blow. Publicly Admitted That he did not expect a turnaround any time soon, But I wanted to Walsh and other business travel writer (and Therefore, you) to Believe That the Majority of problems at the bachelor's degree in passing, and out of control directly to the private.

So imagine my surprise When She Appeared in water the next day, the headquarters near Heathrow airport in the world on a bachelor's degree, and find a huge complex filled with anguish. Screaming headlines in the newspaper red handed with the manufacturer the very Different message from the drums in the air and Walsh: labor costs, the bachelor's degree Were Not Able to compete and height Can not Defend it. Jobs and many, Perhaps, Have to go. Will be cut off roads, and the service disconnected Will Be, You Will Have new sources of passengers. Staff Who Survived the bloodshed is inevitable and It Was Better To Be prepared to sacrifice a great time. And leave the role is no doubt That Welch himself standing behind the cuts. Your message is printed Was staff is simple: survival of the company is at stake.

Water left in That Day in late May dazed and confused. Walsh, Who Met ably much smaller and Aer Lingus close to collapse in the months That Followed 9 / 11 terrorist attacks, it "seems to Razzle. Officials at the Library of Alexandria, who'd Heard The Same Sky Is Falling, the Succession of presidents from the letter the company's privatization in 1987, to listen to now Is That the President and say the media and the World Something Completely Different?

Apparently, I Was not the only confused. Said Walsh, British Airways is now in the strikes: hosts come together for the past week and on Monday it plans to again is the only four days, as of this Saturday. Union Officials Have Promised to resume attacks after the Feast of Easter if Walsh to negotiate changes to a series of job cuts, pay freezes, and changes the rule of the work That HAD Been imposed by the one last fall.

For his part, Walsh "seems determined to Maintain the range of 62 million pounds of annual Reductions of sound, although some analysts say That the cost of the strike, British Airways as much as 30 million pounds per day in lost revenue and expenditure Associated with Maintaining the aircraft flying through stop working.

"This is the way it Operate and Following," says a former colleague of wonder Is Also familiar with the byzantine internal labor relations in the Library of Alexandria and Operations day after day. "We believe there is a trainer and coach engines. Once you decide to follow, and if you follow the not, he'll run over you."

The last former senior BA more direct: "I hope to shoot Them All and start again, and this union Was the king and with the company for years."

Needless to say, there is not much love lost Between Several generations of executives for the bachelor's degree and Unite, Which Represents about 12.000 flight crew compartment. And Unite are not easy to like from the viewpoint of management. He Was sharp in support of ITS and Its membership benefits won over decades of protracted Negotiations Were marked Differences. Also it is connected political and financial backing of the largest British Labour Party. (Not that it helped To achieve this time. Troubled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Labour member, Who is trailing in the general election, expected in May, and to abandon Demanded Unite strike, and called them "regrettable and unjustified.")

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