Due to the air traffic controllers’ strike against the pension reform, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) is asking to reduce the airfoil. Airlines will have to give up 33% of their flights on Sunday at Paris-Orly airport, and 20% on Monday. These preventive cancellations will also concern 20% of flights to Lyon-Saint-Exupéry and Marseille-Provence this Sunday. In the latter airport, the companies will also have to cancel 20% of their program on Monday.
To match flight volumes and the number of air traffic controllers at their post and avoid even greater disruption, the DGAC had already required carriers to give up 30% of their flights at Orly on Friday, then 15% SATURDAY. In addition, one in five flights will be canceled at Marseille-Provence, Bordeaux-Mérignac and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry, both Friday and Saturday.
Repercussions on all European traffic
These work stoppages have repercussions on all European traffic. Most major French airports are experiencing relatively contained delays, less than half an hour departing or arriving on Friday, according to the DGAC’s online dashboard.
Exceptions: delays of almost 50 minutes on departure from Toulouse-Blagnac and three-quarters of an hour on arrival in Bordeaux and Basel-Mulhouse. “Significant delays” also affect planes transiting through the areas covered by the CRNAs of Reims and Marseille, noted for its part the pan-European air traffic monitoring body, Eurocontrol.