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British Airways has offered to meet union leaders to try to avert Christmas strikes by cabin crew, the airline said. Earlier, Gordon Brown called on both sides in the dispute to hold talks as the airline launched legal action in a last-ditch bid to halt the planned 12-day strike.
"We are agreed that the different sides in this dispute have got to look outwards and not inwards, they have got to think of the passengers that they serve, they have got to think about the future of their company. "I know there is a legal challenge today in the courts and we have got to see what happens as a result of that, but I hope we will see the talks that are necessary so that people can have a strike-free and trouble-free Christmas." In a separate interview with Sky News, Mr Brown said the prospect of a strike was "not good news at all".
He added: "It is very serious when you have at Christmas time the possibility of a strike. They will obviously go to court during the course of today and I don’t want to say anything that will affect the ability of the legal system to deal with this problem. But really management and employees of BA have got to look outwards and not inwards."
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