Against the pension reform, air traffic controllers will be on strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. As a result of this mobilization, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) asked airlines to cancel over these two days 20% of their flights to Paris Orly and Marseille Provence. “Despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected,” said the civil aviation gendarme on Monday in a press release.
The cancellation rate is significantly lower than the 30% reductions in flights to Paris Orly and 20% to Marseille requested for Monday by the authorities.
A day of interprofessional strike Thursday
Requests to reduce traffic have been almost daily for several weeks, mainly at these two airports where some of the air traffic controllers have joined the protest movement against the pension reform project carried out by the government of Elisabeth Borne.
To limit traffic disruption, the provisions of the minimum service will be applied in certain en-route air navigation centers (CRNA, air traffic control centers) and airport navigation services, specifies the DGAC, which once again invites “passengers who can to postpone their trip and check with their airline to find out the status of their flight.