Airlines for Europe deplores that the strike of French air controllers “will disrupt the holiday projects for thousands of people”.
The main association of airlines in Europe denounced this Wednesday the strike of French air controllers from Thursday, which, according to her, “disrupts the holiday projects for thousands of people”.
“This strike is intolerable,” said Airlines for Europe (A4E) in a statement transmitted to AFP, judging that “French air traffic control already causes delays among the worst” of the old continent.
Traffic should be very disrupted Thursday at Paris airports and southern France, after a call to strike by two Sky Steerler Unions to defend their working conditions. The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked companies on Tuesday to reduce their flight programs in the face of this social movement: a quarter of the links canceled Thursday in Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais, half in Nice, Bastia and Calvi and 30% in Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Ajaccio and Figari.
The Minister of Transport denounces an “unacceptable” strike
The Minister of Transport Philippe Tabarot excluded this Wednesday to give in to the claims of unions of air controllers, qualified as “unacceptable”, on the eve of the start of a strike which should lead to major disruptions just before the school holidays.
“I know how expensive these strikes are expensive for your airlines,” said the minister by closing the annual congress of the National Aviation Federation and its trades (FNAM), the Sector Congress in Paris.
The second Syndicate of Steelles of the Heaven (17% of the votes in the last professional elections), the UNSA-ICNA, called for the strike on Thursday and Friday. The third, the USAC-CGT (16% of the vote), joined the movement but only for Thursday. In response to the words of Philippe Tabarot, the UNSA-ICNA said “regrets (r) that political communication has now taken precedence over the treatment of major issues” at the DGAC.
The union has cited for this purpose “an under-effective maintained and responsible for delays a good part of the summer”, obsolete tools and “toxic management, incompatible with the required serenity and security imperatives”. The first union, the SNCTA (60% of the vote), told AFP not to call a strike. According to a source familiar with the file, 270 air controllers out of some 1,400 declared striking on Thursday.
