75% of flights will probably be canceled at Orly and 65% at Roissy and Marseille | EUROtoday

Due to an anticipated strike by air site visitors controllers, corporations must cancel Thursday April 25 75% of flights at Paris Orly airport and 65% at Paris-Roissy in addition to Marseille, introduced the General Management of civil aviation (DGAC) throughout a videoconference with them on Tuesday night. The DGAC additionally asks them to cancel 60% of flights at Toulouse and Nice, and 50% for different airports.

A couple of hours earlier Tuesday, the president of the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (FNAM), Pascal de Izaguirre, had warned that this strike motion of air site visitors controllers will probably be “very strongly followed”. All the unions have in reality known as for a strike by air site visitors controllers, after the failure of negotiations on the accompanying measures for an overhaul of air site visitors management.

On the identical day, the National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (SNCTA), the primary union of air site visitors controllers, introduced to file a brand new strike discover for the Ascension Bridge (Thursday 9, Friday 10 and Saturday 11 May) . The union deplored, in a press launch, the failure of conciliation “particularly on the question of social support” and once more offers fifteen days to the general public authorities to “join the search for solutions”.

The second air site visitors controllers union, Unsa ICNA, which can be calling for a strike on Thursday, has for its half filed a brand new discover protecting all the month of June.

Wage will increase

Mr. de Izaguirre denounced the argument of the SNCTA, which calls for wage will increase which he considers to haven’t any impression on the French taxpayer because the DGAC funds is supplemented by charges paid by the airways. This extra value “would ultimately be passed on to the passenger”, defined Mr. de Izaguirre, who can be CEO of Corsair. Not to say that this may represent “an additional element of degradation of our competitiveness” as a result of this value is “mainly supported by French companies”mentioned the chief.

FNAM is worried concerning the deterioration of French competitiveness, whose corporations lose market share every year to Turkish or Gulf corporations. According to Mr. Izaguirre, France breaks the document for air site visitors management strikes with an impression on the funds of the European aviation sector of 800 million euros for the interval 2018-2022, together with 624 million for France alone.

For comparability, in second place on this rating we discover Italy, the place strikes represented a shortfall of 147 million euros over the identical interval, then Greece, with 22 million euros, nonetheless in line with figures put ahead by FNAM.

In September 2023, the SNCTA and the UNSA-ICNA, the second union amongst air site visitors controllers, declared an Olympic truce, promising to not strike for wage causes between now and the tip of the Olympic Games (July 26 to August 11) and Paralympics (August 28 to September 8). “We discovered that it was only partial”, quipped Pascal de Izaguirre, confiding that he was not frightened concerning the competitors interval itself. The sector can be anticipating a summer season “dynamic”. Over the primary three months of the 12 months, air site visitors from, to and in France reached 96% of that of 2019 for a similar interval.