The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked airlines to give up 33% of their flight schedule at Paris-Orly on Tuesday, May 2, due to a strike movement of air traffic controllers at the call of unions mobilized against the pension reform promulgated in mid-April.
On Wednesday, the DGAC had already asked companies to reduce their flights by a third at Orly and a quarter at Roissy for Monday, May 1. Many regional airports were also affected, including Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes and Toulouse. For Tuesday, the DGAC does not give indications concerning Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport or regional airports.
It indicates that it will apply the provisions of the minimum service for Orly, but that "despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected".
Postpone travel
It therefore invites passengers who can do so to postpone their journey.
According to the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (Fnam), the voice of the airlines in France, the mobilization against the pension reform resulted in 34 days of strike in the first quarter. Some 3,500 flights had to be cancelled during this period, including 500 "hot", without passengers being able to be warned in advance, synonymous with difficult situations in the terminals.
For its part, the European air traffic watchdog, Eurocontrol, estimated that 10 million passengers were affected by the strike between March and early April.
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