VIDEO – 60% of drivers are striking and more than two flights canceled on Monday. The company advises its passengers to cancel or postpone travel
Black Monday in perspective in the air. Due to strike Pilots, Air France plans to cancel more flights in two with some 60% of drivers reported having strikers. Sunday morning a slightly improved compared to the statement released by the company yesterday forecast. The SNPL (majority) called for indefinite strike from September 15 to 22. The SPAF second union, and Alter (unrepresentative) to 18 Following the discussions Sunday evening, negotiations broke down and the movement continued. Air France has experienced will strike a week since 1998.
On the Air France website, the company advises “to new customers who booked a flight between 15 and 22 September defer travel or change their tickets at no cost. ” “If the social movement continued beyond September 15, the flight schedule will be adjusted accordingly. Potential impacts will be communicated to affected customers on the eve of departure. However disruptions and delays can not be ruled out, “she says.
The other companies are organized
easyJet was the first to react: the company has deployed an additional capacity of more than 1,000 extra seats on flights from Paris and to Nice and Toulouse.
The Air Corsica regional airline announced Sunday that it would not be affected by the strike of Air France. Air Corsica wants to “inform all its passengers that its network will be in no way affected by this social movement,” adding that all its flights will be operated normally Monday on its public service network between the four airports in Corsica and Nice Marseille and between Ajaccio, Bastia and Figari and Paris-Orly.
This Sunday morning on Twitter, Lille airport warned that Air France flights to Nice and Marseille are canceled tomorrow.
Continuation of negotiations
“You can imagine that it will be even worse on Tuesday and I think Wednesday blocked”, has meanwhile estimated to AFP the president of AF SNPL Alpa, Jean-Louis Barber, explaining that Air France uses the first day of the strike pilot mentoring for flights, pilots will be forced to rest a few days.
The CEO of the company, Frederick GAGEY, which amounts to “10 to 15 million” euros a day the cost of the strike, said Saturday that talks with the unions were continuing this week- end to find a solution to the conflict. “We do everything now with the social partners to try to find a way out of the situation,” he said on France Inter.
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