Marseille-Provence Airport in Marignane
Air controllers are called to a two -day strike from this Thursday in France to claim better working conditions, which leads to cancellations of theft and disrupts the trips of tens of thousands of travelers at French airports.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) said that “significant disturbances and delays are to be expected on all French airports” and has invited “passengers who can postpone their trip”.
Air France said it was forced to adapt its flight program for Thursday and Friday days, without providing details. She maintained all her long-haul flights.
The low -cost Irish company Ryanair said it had canceled 170 flights affecting more than 30,000 passengers on Thursday and Friday.
The UNSA-ICNA, the second union of air traffic controllers in France, called for this strike to denounce structural sub-efficient, the use of “obsolete or faulty tools”, “excessive surveillance and (a) lack of consideration”.
“The (controllers) are now working on credit, under surveillance, in a system that denies their expertise and does not guarantee them the workforce or the systems adapted to their security mission,” the union said in a statement.
The Minister of Transport, Philippe Tabarot, deemed “unacceptable, the choice to make this strike at the time of the big departures on vacation” as well as the claims of the strikers, faced with which he says “resolved to hold on”.
The movement mainly affects Parisian airports and from the south of France.
For Friday, the DGAC asked airlines to reduce their 40% flight program at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports and from 30% to 50% in various other airports such as Nice, Lyon, Marseille and Corsica.
(Written by Makini Brice and Richard Lough, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by Blandine Hénault)
