The Transport & General Workers' Union has warned of further disruption to British Airways flights and on-board meals. Meanwhile the catering firm said that administration is now a "real possibility".

T&G boss Tony Woodley told BBC’s Today programe that BA could be "severely, severely affected" unless the 670 Gate Gourmet workers are reinstated.

Woodley is demanding that BA steps in to help the sacked Gate Gourmet workers get their jobs back at Heathrow Airport.

Some 670 catering staff were sacked two weeks ago, prompting a two-day sympathy strike by BA ground staff at Heathrow.

Woodley said this morning: "I believe the politics of this are so huge, that the public opinion is so far in favour of the re-instatement of my unfairly sacked workers, the repercussions on British Airways and indeed people using British Airways, particularly their Indian travellers and their flights to India, but not just those, they will be severely, severely affected here if they don't do the right thing," he said.

On another note, Gate Gourmet director Andy Cook told BBC Breakfast that going into administration could be inevitable. "At the moment, Gate Gourmet is not a viable commercial organisation and so administration has to be a real probability," he said. "As disappointing as it is, you know, we're faced with losing £25m a year, we're faced with having no contract with British Airways that gives us commercial terms that we need and so we'll end up in the situation of having absolutely no choice."

Gate Gourmet hopes to secure an improved contract from BA - its biggest UK client - and has set the airline a 5pm Tuesday deadline.

The company is now providing hot meals on British Airways' long-haul flights for the first time in 12 days.

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