These canceled flights represent 2% of Transavia's daily fleet, they are a priori the only flight disruptions resulting from the social movement in the air sector.
Four Transavia flights, or 2% of the program, are canceled Thursday due to the call for a strike by unions of airline sector staff in France, we learned from the low-cost airline of the Air France group. -KLM. These are a priori the only flight disruptions resulting from the social movement, the other carriers reporting a normal situation. At Air France, the leading French company, “we still plan to operate all our flights and transport all our customers”confirmed a spokesperson Thursday morning.
The other major French companies (Air Caraibes, French Bee, Corsair, Air Austral) indicated on Tuesday that their flight schedules would not be disrupted. And at EasyJet, “the flight program is maintained” Thursday, said this British company which operates planes based in France. Several organizations representing employees in the airline sector, including the powerful National Union of Line Pilots (SNPL), have called on their members to mobilize to protest against the government's plan to increase air transport taxation by a billion euros. in the finance bill for 2025.
“Deadly tax”
In addition to the SNPL, several other unions in the sector – UNSA transport, UNSA PNC, CFE-CGC FNEMA, UNAC, SNPNC-FO and FEETS-FO – have announced that they are calling “all employees of the airline sector to come and express their disagreement with this deadly taxation”. “This project is an unprecedented attack on the airline sector in France, its jobs, its competitiveness and its sustainability”they denounced. The deputies, who are examining the draft 2025 budget, approved on Friday the increase in taxation on air transport proposed by the government, however limiting its duration to one year and excluding overseas and Corsica from the system. .
This amendment was rejected along with the rest of the part “recipes” of the finance bill by the National Assembly on Tuesday evening, the government now turning to the Senate. On Sunday, the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport François Durovray defended a measure which “has both the virtue of contributing to the restoration of State accounts, but also an environmental aim” due to carbon emissions from aviation.
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