British Airways strike.. what's likely, the ides of March ?

OK there is a way to go before the BA aircraft are grounded due to the impending industrial action by Cabin Staff but the question everyone is asking us is when it's likely to happen ?
The original strike was due to take place for 12 days over Christmas but was stopped by the UK court after irregularities with the voting procedure which included BA cabin staff which had already accepted redundancy terms from the company, so what now ?

The timetable appears to be as follows:

BA were given a weeks' notice on a new ballot on Friday 15th January. The new ballot opens on Friday 22nd January. The process is likely to take a month to complete taking us up to 22 February. The likely start date being mooted by the press is Monday 01st March however my own favourite is a poetic start date of the 15th March, i.e." beware the ides of March ". A union which used the twelve days of Christmas as its media sound bite for its first attempt ,shouldn't be shy of using the Soothsayer's prophecy  to Julius Caesar (Willie Walsh ?) for added press impact and easy headline writing for the National newspapers..   

Let's all hope that in this case the tragedy can be averted.

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