Be careful if you plan to fly. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) on Wednesday demanded that airlines give up 20 to 30% of their flights on Thursday and Friday, as on the previous two days, because of the strike of air traffic controllers.

This social movement forces the DGAC to ask carriers to "reduce their flight schedule by 20% at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport and by 30% at Paris-Orly, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse airports," it announced in a statement.


Passengers invited to postpone

The share of flight schedules cancelled and the airports affected are exactly the same as on Tuesday and Wednesday. For these two days, Air France had said it planned to operate "nearly eight flights out of 10" while the low-cost Transavia, a member of the Air France-KLM group and present on the short and medium-haul, canceled 30% of its program.

"Despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected" Thursday and Friday, said Wednesday the DGAC, inviting "passengers who can to postpone their trip and to inquire with their airline to know the status of their flight".


#Perturbations | National interprofessional social movement from 7 to 10 March 2023. pic.twitter.com/GFEj6PA5of

— Directorate General of Civil 🇫🇷🇪🇺 Aviation (@DGAC) March 8, 2023

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The strike of French air traffic controllers on Wednesday caused "moderate" to "high" delays on some routes transiting French airspace, noted for its part the traffic monitoring body Eurocontrol on its online dashboard.

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