2023-11-16 15:00:20
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation asked airlines on Thursday to give up 25% of their flight schedule on Monday at Paris-Orly, France’s second largest airport, and Toulouse-Blagnac, due to a call for strike of several air traffic controller unions. Carriers have also been called upon to reduce their flights to Bordeaux-Mérignac and Marseille-Provence by 20%.
“Disposition du service minimum”
The activity of air navigation en route centers (CRNA), managing aircraft circulating in the French sky, will also be affected, predicts the DGAC, which will apply the “minimum service provisions”. “Despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected,” she predicts, inviting “passengers who can do so to postpone their trip and contact their airline to find out the status of their flight.
Several unions – the UNSA-ICNA, the USAC-CGT and the CFDT – intend to protest against the adoption on Wednesday of the bill aimed at forcing air traffic controllers to declare themselves individually on strike or not 48 hours in advance, as is already the case at RATP or SNCF. This “protective and balanced” text makes it possible to put an end to “an asymmetrical system” at the origin of a “disorganization of the public service”, declared the Minister of Transport Clément Beaune from the hemicycle.
A risk of “instrumentalization of the right to strike”
In a press release published Tuesday, the national union of air traffic controllers (SNCTA), the majority union in the sector and which did not call for a strike, expressed itself in favor of the text, warning of an “instrumentalization of the right to strike and its unreasonable use” in certain circumstances. This new notice comes after the SNCTA committed to respecting an “Olympic truce”, that is to say not to strike between now and the end of the Olympic and Paralympic Games planned in France during the summer. 2024.
According to the Minister of Transport, this agreement also involves the second union in terms of number of votes in the professional elections of air traffic controllers, the UNSA-ICNA. But not the USAC-CGT, the third union. Numerous days of strike by French air traffic controllers at the start of the year, during the conflict over pensions, led the DGAC to ask airlines to preventively cancel part of their flights.
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