BA’s three-day strike has ended costing an estimated £21m – with all eyes now on a four-day walkout starting Saturday.
The initial strike ended as planned at midnight but there have been no signs of reconciliation between BA and the union Unite.
If Saturday’s strike goes ahead as planned passengers can expect more major delays.
The company said contingency plans to cope with the strike had been “very successful”, and that results for the year to March 31 would be “broadly unchanged”.
Over the first two days of the strike, the company said it operated 78% of long-haul and 50% of short-haul flights.
Union boss Tony Woodley has made a fresh appeal for talks to end the dispute.
He mounted another attack on the company for trying to “browbeat” its staff into accepting worse pay and conditions.
A full service is set to resume today.
But Sky’s Mark White, reporting from Heathrow, said the disruption would continue into the week as many of the planes were in the wrong place.
According to BA, many staff crossed picket lines over the weekend with about 98% turning up for work at Gatwick airport and around 53% arriving for work at Heathrow airport.
But the Unite union disputes this – their figures suggest only 300, or 13.5%, of the 2,220 cabin crew rostered to work turned up.
Mr Woodley has called on BA chairman Martin Broughton and “sensible” directors to intervene in the dispute.
However, Mr Broughton said he had no intention of intervening “because (chief executive) Willie Walsh is doing a great job” and the entire board supported him.
He told the Financial Times: “The ball is in Tony Woodley’s court.”
