Flights with UK carrier British Airways will be taking off as planned by this weekend, following a London High Court decision to suspend a strike of cabin crew.
A BA spokesperson yesterday told 7DAYS the British carrier will be back on track with its flight plan having taken measures to deal with the proposed action.
"Come Friday or Saturday, they're expecting things to be back to normal", the spokesperson said.
The BA spokesperson confirmed a Bahrain flight that had been cancelled was re-instated yesterday after the last-minute ruling from the courts late on Monday night. They added that the airline was still working on the schedule for other flights that had been impacted by the announced strike.
The first of four five-day walk-outs had been due to begin yesterday and BA had already altered schedules around the world in anticipation of the strike, including in Dubai, Bahrain, Jeddah and Doha.
But the spokesperson said the carrier was able to fly about 90 per cent of its passengers yesterday.
However, the Unite union, which represents the BA cabin crew, was heading back to court last night in an attempt to overturn the decision to suspend the strike.
BA lawyers had argued Unite broke the law on a technicality over the way it conducted the strike ballot.
Tony Woodley, joint head of the union, said the judge's ruling was "unbelievable". He said BA won its injunction because the union failed to tell a small number of its 11,000 members there had been 11 spoilt ballot papers in the vote to strike.
"It does bring into question whether we have a right to strike in this country," said.
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