British Airways pilots are seizing on a wave of summer strikes by ground crew colleagues with demands for a new pay deal.
Union leaders will this week open pay talks with BA, as pilots try to overturn a controversial deal agreed during the pandemic.
The talks come against a backdrop of strikes over pay elsewhere in the business. Summer holiday plans were thrown into doubt last week as hundreds of BA’s check-in and ground handling crew at Heathrow airport announced a walkout on the last…