The low cost: it is the heart of the labor dispute at Air France. Flights from the company will be affected from Monday, September 15 with a massive strike by pilots who oppose the project management to develop Transavia, the low cost subsidiary airline. The SNPL (majority) called for indefinite strike from September 15 to 22. The SPAF second union, and Alter (unrepresentative) until 18.
SNPL denounces a project “outsourcing and offshoring.” While the SPAF second union fears that Transavia, which will hire pilots under an employment contract governed by foreign law, becomes “the hiring standard” for pilots.
conditions work and remuneration of Air France pilots are generally more advantageous. The SNPL wants to keep them and explained that the cost of Air France pilots depends primarily on the “operating model” of the parent company, which provides passages between flights by the hub . Roissy e t “no pay system”
The CEO of Air France-KLM, Alexander Juniac, this week rejected the main claim of the unions: a single contract for the pilots 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).
The SNPL said he was invited to a meeting with management last Sunday in 15 hours. “Negotiations will continue until tonight,” Air France confirmed. A one-week strike was the longest conflict fought by pilots of the company since 1998.
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