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Dec 16 (Reuters) - British Airways pilots have voted to
accept an agreement to end a dispute over pay which resulted in
the first walkout by pilots in the airline's history, the
British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA) said on Monday.
Members of the union employed by the company, which is owned
by International Consolidated Airlines and in its 100th
year, voted by nearly nine to one to accept the final agreement,
the union said https://www.balpa.org/Media-Centre/Press-Releases/BA-pilots-vote-to-settle-pay-dispute.
The two parties last month reached a preliminary deal over
pay and conditions, which had to be approved by the union's
4,000 British Airways (BA) pilots.
Pilots at the airline went on strike for 48 hours in
September, grounding 1,700 flights. BA said that the strikes had
cost it 137 million euros ($151 million).
"We welcome this news, which is a good result for our
customers, our people, and our business," BA said in a
statement.
(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru and Alistair
Smout in London; Editing by Alexander Smith and Mark Potter)
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