Reading the above post I am not now going to cancel my flights with BA over the Christmas period.
No doubt if the union had suggested one cabin crew member to be removed from each flight that would have been perfectly ok with the union members and they would have gone out of their way to ensure it worked instead of some of them doing everything possible to prevent it from working.
The two flights I have taken in J since 16 Nov were ok apart from one stewardess looking grumpy and tried to say they were short of crew, no-one seemed to be listening to her.
Power struggle, am I wrong?