Wrestlemania 26 Packages/travel plans discussion & advice

Indeed, it's looking bad alright. From the Guardian.

A strike by BA cabin crew appeared increasingly likely after a last-ditch offer of a 2.6% pay cut failed to achieve a breakthrough in talks today.
Yesterday, representatives of the Unite trade union and its Bassa cabin crew branch tabled a cost-cutting package including a pay cut this year and reductions in perks such as telephone allowances.
Unite claimed the proposals exceeded the airline's savings target of £60m a year, but ‑ with the 5pm deadline for achieving a deal approaching ‑ they have not been accepted unconditionally by the airline.
A source close to the talks, at the TUC headquarters in London, said it was likely that BA executives would turn the offer down.
Another source said the Unite chief negotiator, assistant general secretary, Len McCluskey, was not optimistic that an agreement could be reached.
Unite and Bassa officials will formalise strike dates, and a walkout could take place as soon as next Wednesday once the union has given BA the obligatory seven days notice of strike action.
According to a poll on the Bassa website, nearly one-third of BA's 12,000 cabin crew want a strike lasting longer than 10 days. Unite has already announced that it will not strike over the Easter holidays.
The final Unite offer of a reduction in cabin crew costs of £61.85m a year appeared to be foundering amid BA scepticism over the level of immediate cost savings in the document.
A deal over the creation of a separate fleet, staffed by lower paid cabin crew, has been rejected by the airline, which claimed savings would not be delivered immediately because the fleet had yet to be created.
Unite's cost savings document, seen by the Guardian, argued that the move would save £10m a year – but BA's refusal to acknowledge the plan effectively leaves the Unite proposal at £51.85m a year, below the airline's savings target.
A draft agreement between both sides, now unlikely to be formally accepted, contains a pledge to "rebuild the trust damaged by the recent dispute".
That relationship now stands on the brink of another marked deterioration.
BA has drawn up plans to break a strike with 1,000 volunteer cabin crew drawn from the ranks of its 38,000 workforce and a fleet of 23 chartered jets.
Willie Walsh, the chief executive, last week said he hoped to operate a "substantial proportion" of the airline's Heathrow long-haul operations and a "good number" of short-haul flights.
BA will operate its entire schedule from London City airport during the expected strike, and has also claimed more than two-thirds of its Gatwick-based crew will work normally, leaving its long-haul schedule from the UK's second-largest airport intact.
The airline operates 650 flights a day with its 239-plane fleet, mostly from Heathrow, but has not said which routes would be kept open by the stand-in workforce.
The dispute between BA and Unite has been protracted, marked by high court hearings and accusations of intimidation on both sides.
After months of talks, during which BA failed to secure agreement on cost cuts, the airline unilaterally removed at least one flight attendant from long-haul flights in November, triggering a strike ballot.
While some cabin crew privately acknowledged that the changes had not created significant problems, Unite and Bassa officials were furious that they were brought in without negotiation.
The development has meant, however, that substantial moves ‑ such as Unite's acceptance of putting lower-paid new recruits on a separate fleet of planes ‑ have been overshadowed by the battle to partially repeal staffing cuts.
BA lost £401m at a pre-tax level last year, and is heading for another substantial loss this year.
The airline has targeted cost savings of £140m per year in its cabin crew budget but has failed to reach agreement with Unite over how to achieve those efficiencies.

As I've said before, I really believe they'll give most long haul flights priority. We'll see I guess.

Will it ever end?!

Brolly wrote: »

If you order about a week before going, the stuff should be at the hotel when you check in on the 26th.

Awesome, I just don't want to have to buy as much merch when we are there, I am trying to look up if the Raw after Mania is still three hours or not.

I am thinking no, since the Draft Raw April 26th?, is going to be three hrs.

Yes, they do tape superstars before, we got Christian/MVP vs Carlito and Chavo last night.

I only asked because about a month ago they said it was a three hour Raw for our show so, I have to find the link again.


Thanks:)

It's basically takes over the WWE Heat but to me a tad better. Zack Ryder was a joke but Santino was funny.

Rud3Bwoy wrote: »

Ok guys last night watching raw the warrior was in the opening video now i thought i was the only one that seen this but i was not the only one!Ok guys last night watching raw the warrior was in the opening video now i thought i was the only one that seen this but i was not the only one!

It's being speculated now that WWE and The Ultimate Warrior may have come to an agreement on him joining the Hall of Fame this year after all. Warrior appeared in the opening video before last night's RAW, replacing ric flair

Sweet, I've been lobbying for Warrior for quite a while. He was my favorite (even over Hogan) when I was a kid.

Don't mess with a guy that looks like this

They really need to sort this out. From Press Association:

BA strike talks still 'deadlocked'
(UKPA) – 21 minutes ago
Talks aimed at averting a strike by British Airways cabin crew have continued, with hopes of a deal balanced on a knife edge.
A deadline to reach an agreement was extended on Tuesday in a bid to break a deadlocked row over jobs, pay and working practices.
Officials from Unite met BA managers at the London headquarters of the TUC for further talks, but there was little sign that an agreement was imminent.

Hi, I work for British Airways and appreciate there are a lot of BA-related travel questions at the moment, given the potential strike by cabin crew.

I just wanted to pass on the link to our page on ba.com http://www.britishairways.com/travel/strike-ballot/public/en_ie which has the most up to date and reliable travel information about how possible industrial action could affect your travel plans If I hear of any updates I will try to flag it up on this forum.

Mod Edit.
Link removed because it doesn't lead to where it says.
It actually redirects to a search page.

Here's a link to goole news on the strike: http://news.google.ie/news?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&rlz=1T4ADFA_enIE363IE366&q=ba%20cabin%20crew%20strike&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn