…for lots of British Airways’ passengers as the High Court puts cabin crews back to work over the holiday season.

The cabin crews had been due to start a 12-day strike next Tuesday over changes they say have been imposed by the embattled airline. BA is thought to be losing £1.6m per day and facing significant declines in revenues in the coming year prompting the need for few adjustments here and there!

With most businesses in the throes of belt-tightening exercises and the clumsy timing of the strike action, BA staff were guaranteed not to garner any public sympathy.

And they basically shot themselves in the foot by mismanaging the strike ballot.

Baker & McKenzie managed to secure an injunction in the High Court preventing the strike going ahead. Mrs Justice Laura Cox ruled: “A strike of this kind over the twelve days of Christmas is fundamentally more damaging to BA and the wider public than a strike taking place at almost any other time of the year.” Justice Cox upheld BA’s view that the strike ballot carried by an overwhelming majority was fatally flawed because about 800 of the 12,700 staff balloted were not eligible because they had taken voluntary redundancy.

Passengers everywhere will be celebrating but further industrial action looms in the new year if an agreement is not reached.