Many are in debt – I met one cabin crew worker who told me she has maxed out two credit cards since joining BA – and according to a Unite members' survey, over half work second jobs on their days off to earn extra money.
Cabin crew workers had claimed the airline pressured them to come to work even if they felt sick, the union said.
The carrier is aiming to save as much as £160 million ($231 million) a year within 10 years by hiring any new cabin crew workers on less generous wage deals, Keith Williams, the airline's chief financial officer, told investors on May 21.
The planned walkout of more than 13,000 cabin crew workers would force the airline to cancel numerous flights from London, mainly to other European destinations, and could cost millions of dollars.
While London's Metropolitan Police Force divulged such figures (the annual Met death rate is around half that of cabin crew workers, although the cause of death varies across both groups), BA would not give Dee or her union representative any industry numbers.
British Airways said that it was canceling 1,300 flights from London for two days next week because of a planned strike by its cabin-crew workers.
The bomb is likely to have been brought on board by airport service personnel, such as cabin cleaners or workers delivering baggage and food, and set off by a timer, though another possibility is that it went off when a sensor detected falling pressure as the plane gained altitude, Kommersant reported.
A century ago, a pair of man-eating lions stalked in the darkness outside my cabin window – snatching construction workers sleeping in their tents, claiming as many as 100 victims in just a few months.
"O.K., they're jogging it" — trying to get a belt started — a worker in the cabin said, listening to his radio.
Over the past three years, strikes by Network Rail employees, British Airways cabin crew and London bus workers have been halted by failure to adhere to those guidelines.
