<- Hard dé e: 0.031438112258911 sec -> This is a strike that looks tough. After failed negotiations with the management of Air France, the drivers of the company have promised to follow massive movement. Air France planned for end-to 48% of its flights on Monday, with a rate of 60% of strikers drivers. 65,000 text messages were sent to travelers Sunday, which did not exclude disruptions and delays.
“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 . A321 which provides a link instead of an A318, is, for example, 50 seats more. Unions evoke them, the rate of 75% of strikers and 85% of flights canceled for the day. And are forecasting a total blockade by Wednesday, “When the company has exhausted the tank driver coaching,” forced to rest after being called in on Monday, the spokesman “we get to full lock,” said the SPAF Julien Duboz echoing the statements of Jean-Louis Barber, president of the Air France section SNPL majority among pilots and principal operator of the strike.
“The flight is not canceled, phew!”
While waiting for the resumption of negotiations, the Air France management believes “that there is no heavy delays. ” For those who could not see their flight next week – no charge assured Air France this weekend – a day of challenges yet ahead. 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 … According to AFP, 80% of flights were canceled in Toulouse 70 % in Marseille, Lyon and Nice. Moreover, it is to the latter city, and to Toulouse, 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 to Ajaccio. But none of these tickets will be financed by Air France.
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On Twitter, messages poured in French, English, Russian, Finnish … Steven was surprised that despite the announcements made by the company, is billed him £ 102 (€ 128) to have changed his ticket on Monday for the next available flight the next day. Sonia Souid, football agent, was amazed: “The flight is not canceled, phew,” she wrote on the network
Laurent Berger complains. a “strike corporatist”
“The backdrop to all this is the offshoring”, was annoyed on Europe 1 Jean-Louis Barber, president of the Air France section the SNPL majority union for pilots at the origin of the call to strike. “We’re not on a project to create jobs ( Editor’s note: In the lowcost subsidiary Transavia ) but redeployment. It is not normal that the competition takes place only on the social model. ” Like his colleagues
Three unions called the walkout (see below). The head of the CFDT Laurent Berger strongly criticized their movement. “The ground staff are frustrated CFDT (…) because it’s been two years since the company is in receivership, with the efforts of each other, and that there, the drivers do not want to participate in efforts Has he said on RTL radio, denouncing a “strike corporatist”
Guest of I & gt; TV this morning, Bruno Le Maire (UMP) was very critical. “What I do not understand, and I refuse to be a challenge for the future is that the strike is a starting point and not the ultimate solution when you have tried everything, has dealt forcefully former minister and presidential candidate UMP. I do not understand that we take users hostage like this, it creates disorder that weakens our economy, which creates stress for all passengers as a starting point for negotiating. “
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 drivers in the group.
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