The main association of airlines in Europe denounced on Wednesday the strike of the French air controllers on Thursday, which, “interrupts holiday projects for thousands of people.”
“This strike is intolerable,” said Airlines for Europe (A4E) in a statement transmitted to AFP, judging that “French air traffic control already causes delays among the worst” of the old continent.
The traffic must be very interrupted on Thursday at the airports of Paris and South France, after a strike call from two Sky Steerler unions to defend their working conditions. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked companies on Tuesday to reduce their flight programs in front of this social movement: a quarter of the links canceled on Thursday in Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais, half in Nice, Bastia and Calvi and 30% in Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Ajaccio and Figari.
The transport minister denounces a “unacceptable” strike
Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot excluded Wednesday to give up the statements of air controllers unions, qualified as “unacceptable”, on the eve of the start of a strike that should lead to large interruptions just before school holidays.
“I know how expensive these strikes are for their airlines,” the minister said when closing the Annual Congress of the National Aviation Federation and its trades (FNAM), the Congress of the Sector in Paris.
The second Steelles of the Heaven union (17% of the votes in the last professional elections), UNSA-ICNA, asked for the strike on Thursday and Friday. The third, the USAC-CGT (16% of the votes) joined the movement but only for Thursday. In response to the words of Philippe Tabarot, UNSA-ICNA said “rough (r) that political communication has now had priority over the treatment of important problems” in the DGAC.
The union has cited for this purpose “a little and responsible for delaying a good part of the summer”, obsolete tools and “toxic management, incompatible with the serenity and the required security imperatives.” The first union, the SNTTA (60% of the votes), told AFP not to call a strike. According to a source familiar with the archive, 270 air controllers of about 1,400 amazed on Thursday.
Source: BFM TV
