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Air France should be 50% paralyzed Monday by a strike of pilots opposed to the expansion conditions of the subsidiary low cost of the company, unless advanced Sunday in negotiations between management and the main union. The company, a unit of Europe’s second Air France-KLM, slightly revised upward its forecast traffic Sunday, announcing that it would provide almost a flight of two when she was counting on 40% Saturday night .
“We plan to ensure 48% of flights” with about 60% of drivers reported having strikers, said at a news briefing Catherine Jude , Director of Operations Control Centre. The SNPL (majority) called for indefinite strike from September 15 to 22. The SPAF second union, and Alter (unrepresentative) to 18 A one-week strike would be the longest conflict led by Air France pilot since 1998.
Air France, which will try to fly airplanes “to larger capacity” , advises “to customers who booked a flight between 15 and 22 September to postpone travel, change their ticket no cost “ or ” be reimbursed “. The AF SNPL Alpa told AFP he was invited to a final meeting with management on Sunday at 15:00. “The discussions will take place only with the SNPL, which we regret,” , said the president of the union, Jean-Louis Barber. “Negotiations will continue until tonight” , Air France confirmed on Sunday.
However, the main pilots’ union, which fears that the particular development project of low cost subsidiary Transavia does not lead to “outsourcing jobs” and “social dumping” , with pilots under contracts governed by foreign law, is pessimistic about the possibility of finding a solution to the conflict there began several weeks.
“We will have 75% of strikers’ says Jean-Louis Barber. ” But the direction remains on a project all tied in dogma. His responsibility is to know how to listen and avoid wasting a lot of money to the company, it is a substantive issue, we are not talking salary increases “, argues the boss the SNPL, noting that his union “has not filed a notice of strike since 2002″ .
“Worse Tuesday and Wednesday”
Frederick GAGEY, head of Air France, which amounts to “10-15000000″ Euro per day cost of the strike, said Saturday that the “did everything with partners Social trying to find a way out of the situation “
The CEO of Air France-KLM, Alexander Juniac, this week rejected the main claim of the unions. contracts unique for the drivers to the current conditions of Air France for all aircraft with more than 100/110 seats, regardless of the company Air France (Air France, Hop !, Transavia). According to Jean-Louis Barber, “if the strike rate is still too high” “You can imagine that it will be even worse on Tuesday and Wednesday,” : Air France uses the first day of the strike pilot mentoring for theft, but they will be forced to rest the following day, he says.
“If the social movement continued to Step outside of 15 September, the flight schedule will be adjusted accordingly. Potential impacts will be communicated to affected customers on the eve of departure “, the company says. The development of subsidiary Transavia is the cornerstone of a new strategic plan “Perform 2020″ AF-KLM to respond to competition from low-cost airlines.
While the future seems sealed for Air France pilots, overstaffed (a voluntary redundancy scheme was opened in August to 200 pilots on 3760), the setting Transavia, with an increase of the fleet in France from 14 to 37 aircraft in five years and group in Europe, a new basis from 2015, but with pilot local contract. To take advantage of the conflict, the Air low-cost airline easyJet is selling Saturday additional 1,000 places from Paris to Toulouse and Nice.
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