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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap No end in sight to BA strike as row becomes political AFP - Monday, March 29 Send IM Story Print A striking cabin crew member holds a placard as a British Airways plane flies overhead at London's Heathrow Airport. BA cabin crew have entered the second day of a four-day strike, forcing cancellations and bringing disruption for travellers amid no sign of an end to the bitter dispute. LONDON (AFP) - – British Airways (BA) cabin crew entered the second day of a four-day strike Sunday, bringing further travel disruption with no end in sight for a dispute that has become increasingly political. The Unite trade union, which represents 12,000 BA cabin crew, is staging its second walkout in a week and says there are likely to be more strikes ahead unless BA makes them an acceptable offer. Amid conflicting reports about the impact of the walkout, Unite claimed more than 130 flights had been cancelled by mid-morning. BA has said it expects 75 percent of passengers booked during the strike period to fly. Just weeks before an election expected on May 6, opposition Conservative leader David Cameron has used the strike to attack Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose Labour party receives much of its funding from Unite. Cameron told the BBC Sunday that Brown had displayed "weakness" in his response to the BA dispute and another planned strike by railway workers, saying this was "partly because he's hocked to the unions". "The unions have scented weakness in the government and that's one of the reasons why were seeing quite so many strikes," he added. Brown hit back in a separate BBC interview, saying there had been "far greater industrial peace" in the past 13 years of the Labour government than there had been in the previous 18 years of Conservative rule. "We have been very tough about this British Airways strike, we've said its not in the public interest, it's not in British Airways' interest and we've said we don't think it's in the workers' interest," he said. "But we also want to make it possible for arbitration and negotiation to take place," the prime minister added. Talks between BA and Unite, Britain's largest trade union, broke down on the eve of the first strikes on March 20 and there is no date for them to resume. "Until such time as a sensible proposal comes on the table, this dispute will continue," Unite's Steve Turner told the BBC on Saturday, adding: "There are no talks that are scheduled right now." The strikes centre on what the union says is BA chief executive Willie Walsh's "slash and burn strategy" to cut costs, which Unite claims would lead to a two-tier workforce and damage standards of customer service. But Walsh has warned the loss-making airline could fold in a decade unless the changes he wants are carried out. "We are trying to transform the way we operate because the industry is changing and the economic conditions have changed so radically that we've got to change," he told the Daily Telegraph Saturday. He added: "If we don't do this, BA won't exist in 10 years." Striking cabin crew set up picket lines outside Heathrow on Sunday, waving flags and banners and singing derogatory songs about Walsh, who the union has accused of bully tactics. "He wants to make it into a premium company with cheap staff but it just won't work," one cabin crew member said, asking not to be named. On Saturday, the picketers were joined by staff from Iberia, the Spanish airline which is in talks to merge with BA, wishing to show their solidarity. BA said it had achieved its target on the first day of the strike to fly more than 75 percent of customers, and said services had got off to a similarly good start Sunday. London's Gatwick and City airports were operating as normal. Walsh visited London Heathrow's Terminal 5 to talk to passengers Saturday and said he found customers "very positive", but said he was "deeply sorry" for the disruption caused. Unite claims six Heathrow flights were loaded with passengers then unloaded Saturday because of lack of crew and that many long-haul services were leaving 30 percent below capacity. This is denied by the airline. 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