Nobody knows how big this strike is going to be or if it's going to be a big bust and nobody strikes. It's an unknown right now. All that hyperbole that "this is the biggest strike since the General Strike of 1926" might be true. Might not. Who knows?
It seems mostly to be centered on teachers taking a day off to protest, but it's also a "public employees" call to action over their pensions.
But if the June 30 strike disrupts commuter travel in anyway, imagine how hard it will be for flight crews, cabin crew and airport staff to get to the airport on June 30 to work--even though they aren't on strike themselves. That's where I see the potential disruption for the airports on June 30--lack of crew, ground staff to get flights out of there and lack of border agency personnel to get incoming flights through immigration will undoubtedly be a problem if the strike really is big.
Follow bbc.co.uk web site and click on "news." Look for headlines about June 30. Also
www.telegraph.co.uk newspaper. Less so
www.dailymail.co.uk because they often get stories rather wrong. So not that reliable on the detail. Also,
www.skynews.com has a web site with text to read, even if you can't access their live video reports.
And of course the workers' rag:
www.guardian.co.uk
They live for strikes! LOL
If you happen to have a Virtual Private Network that can allow you to watch the BBC and SKY NEWS live tv coverage from their own websites, then they will have updates as well.
But if no VPN, the above web news sites and newspapers will be following it as it gets nearer.....
Meanwhile BA ain't talkin'! And why would they? Thousands of people planning to fly in that day are completely unaware of this unless they follow UK news closely. If BA put something on their web site about this now, everybody and his dog would be phoning them wanting to change the dates etc. So I understand why they are playing it cool.
All they can do is react anyway. It's BAA's and the Border Agency's airport, not theirs. BA are as stuck as we are if a big strike actually occurs.
Am hoping it's a tempest in a teapot. But we'll see. I hope to get out to Ireland on July 1 after one night at the Sofitel T5. But....sigh.