British Airways Still Recovering

British Airways canceled a number of flights out of London Friday, nearly a week after a flight attendants’ strike ended. The carrier said it hopes to have nearly all of schedule restored by Monday.

British Airways did not give specific numbers for Friday’s cancellations. But it said 15 percent of the long-haul intercontinental flights out of its home base, London’s Heathrow Airport, did not operate.

About 20 percent of the short-haul European and domestic British flights out of Heathrow were also grounded Friday.

The company says it is facing continued difficulties because many of the flight attendants called in sick rather than walking out on strike, and about 1,000 of them have yet to return to work.

But the airline says an extra 150 of the workers have been coming back on duty each day, and it hopes to be operating 95 percent of its full schedule at Heathrow by Monday.