“ We had to leave at 2:35 p.m.. It was written on the screens that the flight was maintained, but we learned that in fact the flight was delayed 4 hours ” Sophie gets angry Leost, a passenger departing from Roissy to Barcelona.
“ Nearly 40% of flights are delayed ” Roissy, reported AFP 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 to complain counter! it is assumed that this is related to the air traffic controllers strike, but as we said nothing to us … , “continues Ms. Leost.
At Orly, where the movement started by the UNSA (third traffic controllers union in) “ has hardened in early afternoon “, only 50% of traffic was assured Sunday, according to another airport source.
And while the curfew looming during which, from 11:30 p.m. to 6:00, no plane took off nor landed, the situation was chaotic in the second Paris airport, to the point that some companies had to resolve to carry passengers by bus.
“ There are many flights delayed, canceled, discontent and huge queues at counters companies “, reported this source to 20.30, indicating the majority of the cancellations concerned domestic flights.
“ Try to make maximum from the aircraft before the curfew but the crews of the service schedules to respect ,” said she said.
In this situation, Air France recommended that 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 additional 50% in Orly flight schedules for the day between 11:30 p.m. and 16H, due to movement strike “ especially monitoring .”
– ‘Pannes increasingly frequent’ –
This decision adds to the appeal it launched Friday the companies to reduce their programs 20% flight at five airports (Orly, Beauvais, Lyon, Nice and Marseille) in anticipation of the strike will last 48 hours.
Monday DGAC asked to bring in a third reducing their flight program on Orly and Marseille, while “ 20% reduction programs flight 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 including Toulouse, Bordeaux and Lyon and Marseille.
The UNSA-ICNA (20% of the vote among the 4,000 air traffic controllers) protests against “ the decision to accelerate the declining enrollment ” in 2016, “ passing the departures replacement rate from 80% to 65% (which) appears totally disconnected with the operational needs of the control centers “while” all traffic forecasts now indicate significant growth prospects . ”
The union denounced in a statement the “ considerable technological backwardness ” French tools used by air traffic controllers and the “ lack of investment ” which “ lead to breakdowns increasingly frequent with direct implications in the security chain .”
The National Federation aviation market (FNAM), which represents 95% of French air transport sector, denounced in a statement “ new catastrophic strike unspeakable and economically for the French airline . ”
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