British Airways passengers could once again be facing disruption as the dispute between the airline and its cabin crew rumbles on. Unite has accused BA of turning down its latest peace deal, but added it hoped to be able to sit around the table at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) with BA sometime in the next week for talks.

Tony Woodley, the union’s joint general secretary, has sent an email to the 11,000 members who make up BA’s flight crew saying the airline had turned down Unite’s proposals of having all flight perks returned over a limited period of time and all disciplinary action against staff overseen by Acas.

So far, 13 members of BA’s staff have been sacked because of their behaviour during the dispute. BA claims it has acted within the rules, but the sackings have caused ill feeling on both sides.

As for the return of the travel perks which have been rescinded, BA boss Willie Walsh has made it consistently clear that he warned those members of staff threatening to strike that if they took part in industrial action they could lose their travel privileges

Walsh has also pointed out that travel perks are not contractual and therefore BA is not obliged to return them. A spokesman for the carrier said BA was still available for talks but pointed out that it had made what it saw as a very decent offer to which many crew members who are not affiliated to Unite were signing up.