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British Airways flights will be disrupted for a third day today by a strike action by cabin crew, with no sign of talks to broker a solution.

Company chief executive Willie Walsh insisted that the airline had been able to carry 60 per cent of booked passengers and that it had been able to add flights to its expected schedules because of the number of cabin crew breaking the strike.