Unless new talks are successful today, British Airways' cabin crew have vowed to take widespread strike action after disagreements with management over sick leave, pay and staffing levels.

Members of the Transport & General Workers Union gave their 96% backing to industrial action yesterday, although BA management called the move ‘completely unnecessary’.
Cabin crew are upset at what they see as draconian new regulations which they claim will penalise them if they are ill, but the airline rejects this assertion.
Any major strike at BA would obviously be bad news for the airline, following on from the security problems in the last quarter of 2006 and the mayhem caused by fog at London's airports just before Christmas.