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The air site visitors controllers' strike deliberate for Thursday will likely be “a very strongly followed movement”warned the president of the primary group bringing collectively corporations within the aviation sector, Pascal de Izaguirre, Tuesday April 23, throughout a press convention.

“We were told of 75% of flights canceled at Orly and 65% at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. It will have a huge impact”introduced the president of the National Federation of Aviation and its Trades (FNAM) whereas all of the unions are calling for a strike of air site visitors controllers, after the failure of negotiations on help measures for an overhaul of air site visitors management.

Mr. de Izaguirre additionally denounced the argument of the primary union of air site visitors controllers, the SNCTA, which is demanding wage will increase which he considers to haven’t any influence on the French taxpayer for the reason that price range of the final directorate of civil aviation ( DGAC) is supplemented by charges paid by airways. This further value “would ultimately be passed on to the passenger”, defined Pascal de Izaguirre, who can also be CEO of Corsair. Not to say that this might represent “an additional element of degradation of our competitiveness” as a result of this value is “mainly supported by French companies”stated the chief.

FNAM is anxious in regards to the deterioration of French competitiveness, whose corporations lose market share annually to Turkish or Gulf corporations. According to Mr. Izaguirre, France breaks the file for air site visitors management strikes with an influence 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 nervous in regards to the competitors interval itself. The sector can also 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.