British Airways executives earned share options worth almost £3 million last month, according to reports.
Details of the executive bonuses were registered with the Stock Exchange just prior to the first Unite cabin crew strike.
According to The Times, the bonuses were part of the BA Performance Share Plan for senior bosses and were worth £2.50 per share on March 19.
The executives, including CFO Keith Williams and director of sales and marketing Drew Crawley, will only be able to exercise their options if they hit performance targets.
The share options equate to hundreds of thousands of pounds each.
Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of Unite, which represents cabin crew, said: "It beggars belief that on the very day Unite was working furiously to avert strikes and negotiate a settlement, BA's boardroom were more concerned with finalising their bonanza.
"Cabin crew aren't luxuriating in share windfalls - they're too busy fighting to save their livelihoods."
But BA chief executive Willie Walsh has not picked up a bonus in the last three years.
The airline faces the prospect of more industrial action as an agreement with cabin crew has yet to be reached.
BA was thought to have coped admirably with the first two strikes with passengers disruption said to have been minimal.