Air France strike: at least two flights canceled – Le Parisien

Air France strike: at least two flights canceled – Le Parisien

<- Hard dé e: 0.030081033706665 sec -> This is a strike that promises to be tough. After failed negotiations with the management of Air France, the drivers of the company have already promised to follow the massive movement: half the flights scheduled today should be pinned down. Air France provides for ensuring 48% of its flights on Monday, with a rate of 60% of strikers drivers.
                  <- hard dé e: 0.039586067199707 sec -> 65 000 SMS messages were sent to travelers yesterday, which does not exclude disruptions and delays. It’s a little better than 60% of affected flights mentioned yesterday. “As part of our SkyTeam alliance, we have been able to transfer passengers to partner airlines, Chinese Italian companies, or American who proposed larger aircraft,” said a spokesman of the company in Paris.

For those who could not see their flight next week – no charge assured Air France this weekend – a day of difficulties ahead. On Twitter, messages start flowing in, in French, English, Russian, Finnish … Steven is surprised that despite the announcements made by the company, is billed him £ 102 (€ 128) for modifying Today their ticket for the next available flight tomorrow. Sonia Souid, agent footballers do almost no returns, “the flight is not canceled, phew,” she wrote on the network

At 7:00 on Monday. The breaking news on the Air France website dated the previous day, 17 hours. It is on the canvas that we can hope some info. By researching town city on the Air France website. Thus, from the airport of Paris-Charles de Gaulle flights to Chicago or New York they are confirmed, while others to Los Angeles, Delhi, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Abuja, Houston and the Dominican Republic are canceled. In the hexagon, twelve flights Air France are deleted from Lyon thirty-three and from Toulouse Blagnac, twenty-two for Nice, Bordeaux ten … In Nantes, the terminal is deserted, as in Nice and Toulouse. Moreover, it is to these cities as Easyjet, bouncing off the strike by Air France pilots, has rightly put on sale a thousand more tickets. Similarly Air Corsica has muscled its offerings.

“The backdrop to all this is the offshoring” irritated Europe 1 Jean-Louis Barber, president of the Air France section SNPL majority union for pilots at the origin of the call to strike. “We’re not on a project to create jobs (note: in the lowcost subsidiary Transavia) but redeployment. It is not normal that the competition takes place only on the social model. “

Why this strike?

 To stem the fall in profitability, the French airline has introduced a plan called “Perform 2020″, following the restructuring plan “Transform 2015″. Perform 2020 plans include the development subsidiaries Hop! and Transavia. For the latter, the pilots could be hired overseas contracts with local law without the French social guarantees. Unions cry social dumping. The SNPL majority, calling its pilots to strike until September 22, denounced the risk of “relocation of the medium-haul operations” while the SPAF on strike until 18, calls for the creation of a single status for all pilots of the

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