Half of the flights canceled in Nice, a quarter at Paris airports on Thursday, and more on Friday: a strike of French air controllers disrupts the start of the summer holidays of tens of thousands of travelers. Switzerland is also impacted.
The second Syndicate of Steelles of the Heaven, the UNSA-ICNA launched this movement to claim better working conditions and greater staff. He was joined by the third union force of the profession, the USAC-CGT. From a source close to the file, 270 air controllers declared themselves strikers on Thursday, out of a total workforce of around 1,400.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), to adequate the number of controllers at their post and the volume of flights to be managed in complete safety, asked the airlines to give up part of their programs.
Disruptions in Switzerland
Geneva-Aerport says “always expect complicated days when announcing strikes” and estimates that flights will be impacted on Thursday. Geneva airport, however, specifies having to wait until Thursday evening to concretely quantify the impact of this day.
Same bell for Basel airport. He was affected Wednesday by “delays and cancellations of takeoff and landing, in five cases” which were linked to the strike.
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