– New strike threat for Ascension Bridge
The controllers’ union plans to disrupt traffic at Orly and Roissy airports on May 9, 10 and 11. A strike has already been announced for this Thursday.
Published: 04/23/2024, 5:13 p.m.
A billboard announces the cancellation and delays of Air France flights at Orly airport. (archive photo)
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The National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (SNCTA, majority) announced on Tuesday that it would file a new strike notice for the days of Thursday 9, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 May, for the Ascension Bridge, while a massive strike is already looming on Thursday.
The union, which contests the overhaul of air traffic control in France and demands compensation measures and salary increases, deplored in a press release the failure of conciliation “in particular on the question of social support” and once again gives 15 days for public authorities to “take part in the search for solutions”.
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This Thursday, the movement should be “strongly followed”, according to the main organization bringing together air transport companies (Fnam). Airlines will have to cancel 75% of flights at Paris Orly airport and 65% at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle and Marseille on Thursday, we learned on Tuesday from a Source close to the matter.
“Huge impact”
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) will also ask them to cancel 60% of flights to Toulouse and Nice, and 50% for other airports, this Source told AFP. In addition to the cancellations, we must expect “very big delays,” a national secretary of the SNCTA told AFP, on condition of anonymity.
The air traffic control reform aims to “increase productivity”, according to an SNCTA official. The union wishes to “support this search for performance” via salary increases which would bring them closer to “European social standards”, according to the same Source.
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