The first weekend of major departures of the summer will be disrupted.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has called on airlines to reduce the number of their flights departing from and arriving at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport by 17% from this Friday.
This represents a hundred flights canceled on the eve of the weekend of major departures, said ADP.
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Roissy firefighters on strike
In question, the strike of ground staff at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly airports, organized this weekend at the call of seven unions, which notably affects the fire teams at Roissy airport.
This firefighters' strike forced the ADP group, manager of Paris airports, to close two of the four runways at Roissy.
The disruptions could continue over the weekend, with unions calling on workers to go on strike from Friday to Sunday.
“We invite passengers to check the news of their flight with their company and to anticipate their arrival at the airport: three hours for an international flight, two hours for a domestic or European flight”
, indicated the ADP group.
Traffic at Orly, on the other hand, is not affected, again according to ADP.
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The employees are asking for a general salary increase of 10% to cope with inflation, hiring and the abandonment of the savings measure adopted by ADP during the health crisis, which involved an 8% reduction in remuneration.
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Since the Covid crisis, quite a few colleagues have been made redundant.
We find ourselves doing the work of three people
“says Anissa Belabbas, regulator and CGT representative, employee of the 3s Alyzia group which manages ground handling at Paris airports.
Thursday, June 30, the start of the strike movement caused the cancellation of 62 flights during the day at Roissy.
At the call of an inter-union FO-CGT-CFE-CGC, a strike notice was also filed from Friday to Monday in Marseille-Provence, but its management did not foresee either cancellation or delay, personnel having been requisitioned by decree prefectural.