Strike at airports: no flights in Montpellier, Nîmes and Perpignan this Tuesday, December 17

No plane will take off or land on Tuesday from the airports of Montpellier, Nîmes or Perpignan, and 60% of flights will be canceled at Lyon-Saint-Exupéry due to a call for a strike, the General Directorate of the Civil aviation.

“Local strike notice”

Ce “local strike notice”“filed by the majority union organization representing air traffic controllers“, concerns the air navigation services of Lyon, Ajaccio and Montpellier, the administration said in a press release, according to which delays can also be expected throughout the day at Ajaccio airport.

The DGAC thus wants “limit traffic disruptions” and avoid forced cancellations, once passengers are already at the airports, by matching the number of available air traffic controllers and the flow of aircraft to manage.

She invited Monday “passengers who can do so to postpone their trip and contact their airline to find out the status of their flight.”

Halt of negotiations

The call for a strike was launched by the main French air traffic controllers' union, the SNCTA, on December 8, against a backdrop of difficult “negotiations on the organization of work”according to the organization.

In a statement, SNCTA management said “strongly condemns the sudden end to negotiations concerning the organization of the work of the organizations of Ajaccio, Lyon and Montpellier for 2025”.

“Forgetting respect and social dialogue”l’administration “chooses rupture and deprives the air traffic controllers of these control centers of visibility”she said, warning that “the management practiced for months and denounced on several occasions must stop immediately”and threatening in the absence of “mobilize the profession more widely”.