“Nearly 40% of flights are delayed” at Roissy, reported an airport source, while the airport has an average of 1,400 flights a day. “There is no communication, the company should at least give us to drink, but it is nonexistent and as we have already passed the checks, you can not go and complain at the counter! It is assumed that this is related to the air traffic controllers strike, but as we said nothing to us … “complained a passenger.
more and more cancellations in Paris
at Orly, where the movement launched by the Unsa (third traffic controllers union in) “has hardened in the early afternoon,” only 50% of traffic was assured Sunday, according to another airport source. “There are more and more of cancellations, but it is mostly domestic flights that are impacted. The flights to Outremer are maintained, but have delays of 3 to 4 hours,” said the same source. The situation is beginning “to become complicated.” “A lot of people are waiting in the terminal, especially since it is a Sunday charge,” worried the same source.
Air France and asks his passengers whose flights have been canceled, not to go to Orly. Sunday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked airlines to reduce their 50% extra flight programs at Orly, provided the same day between 11:30 p.m. and 16H due to the strike “especially monitoring” .
Delays of 20 to 40 minutes
This decision adds to the appeal it launched Friday at companies 20% reduction in their flight programs in five airports (Orly, Beauvais, Lyon, Nice and Marseille) in anticipation of the strike will last 48 hours. On Monday, the DGAC asked to bring in a third reducing their flight program on Orly and Marseille, while “the 20% of the flight programs to the airports of Lyon, Nice and Beauvais is maintained, “she said in a statement. Sunday morning, delays of 20 to 40 minutes were recorded on average in six french airports.
“considerable technological delay”
the UNSA-ICNA (20% of the vote among the 4,000 air traffic controllers) protested against “the decision to accelerate the enrollment decline” in 2016, “passing the departures replacement rate 80% to 65% (which) appears totally disconnected with the operational needs of the control centers “after” all traffic forecasts now show significant growth prospects “. The union denounced in a statement the “considerable technological backwardness” of the tools used by French air traffic controllers and the “lack of investment”, which “leads to breakdowns increasingly frequent with direct implications in the security chain “
The report of V. Varin, E. B. Jacquet and Peru.
Strike of air traffic controllers in Nice
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