THE ICEMAN COMETH

Read the link above then tell me how Willie Walsh pocketed an inflation busting 6% pay rise last year, despite the airline in June this year posting its largest ever loss and and is planning thousands more job losses.

Walsh, who did not receive a bonus last year (poor love), was paid a basic salary of £735,000 – up by 5% from £701,000 the previous year. Including benefits, he scooped an overall pay increase of 6% last year. BA also topped up his pension fund by £90,000, compared to £81,000 the previous year.

BA today said it hoped to take legal action to prevent the strike that would "protect customers from the massive stress and disruption" threatened by the 12-day stoppage.

Sorry, Willie, aren't you the same William Walsh who presided over of the shambolic opening of Heathrow Terminal 5? Your business is about saving your own skin, pure and simple, nothing else, you couldn't give a toss about your customers.

For BA to seek an injunction, to prevent their own employees taking last resort industrial action to protect their own welfare, is a desperate last throw of the dice. Tell you what, here's an idea, 'Negotiate' don't go whining to the Judiciary. Earn your obscene salary by protecting your blessed customers, and protecting those employees who will never earn your annual salary in their own lifetimes.