英伦广角 2010-03-21 英航期望通过谈判避免罢工
It’s only matter of an hour to go before plan stoppage by 12,000 cabin crew. BA’s boss, Wily Wash has gone on the offensive, taking out full page advertisement criticizing Unite Union, and promising 1 to keep the flight flying for customers. But the airline is hurting. Even before the midnight strike begins, it’s estimated BA has already lost as much as 27 million pounds, through 103,000 passenger cancellations. Talks between Mr. Wash and Unites’ Tony A continued until late last night.
- With a joint 2 overnight, so the meeting will begin tomorrow morning.
- OK, what time do you think you can start?
- I’m not sure yet, but we’ve pretty much ready for it.
-And they will come back there?
- That’s in case.
-Still hopeful? Always hopeful?
- Oh, I can tell you this.
The cabin crew staffs remain define thousands of them due to rally late xxx. That meeting could be crucial in gaining acceptance in any last minute deal. If the talks fail, be able to kick off huge contingency 3 plan. The airline claims it able to put 60% passengers that are around 135,000 on their original flights after more staffs said they cross the picky lines. The Union has accused BA of bluffing 4.
- Anyone travels on the first three days the strike, that’s tomorrow, Sunday and Monday, has had pretty much a week to get use to what their options are and decide what to refund 5, to travel with somebody else, or in many cases, that’s 2 out of 3 travellers will just be on the BA flight they booked on.
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- We should be prepared for any contingency.我们应该对任何应急情况有所准备。
- A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.库房的一场大火是我们始料未及的。