If you have to take a plane in the next few days from Orly or Roissy, it is better to check with your company that the flight is maintained and where. A terminal closed at Orly this Tuesday evening, three more soon at Roissy-Charles-Gaulle ... Collapse of air traffic requires (40% less passenger last week), Aéroports de Paris is adapting.
The closing to the public of Orly 2 will take place this Tuesday, March 17 from 11:30 p.m. The flights of the companies assigned to this terminal fold elsewhere: Easy Jet and Air Europa will be transferred to Terminal 1, door A. Those of Pegasus Airlines, to Orly 4.
"We are ready to close more depending on the reality of traffic"
By the end of the week or at the start of next week at the latest, three Roissy-CDG terminals will also be closed. Terminal 3, Terminal 2G and Hall M at Terminal 2E will be closed to the public. "We are ready to close more depending on the reality of traffic," said Edward Arkwright, chief executive officer of ADP, on Monday. No duration is officially advanced. "Until further notice," says ADP, a few hours before the intervention of the Head of State who announced the ban on travel outside the Schengen area, ie outside Europe.
The group forecasts an operating loss of 190 million euros in 2020, due to the fall in traffic on the platforms it manages around the world, in connection with the spread of the coronavirus. And to underline, the suspension "of the parking fees for the planes immobilized on the Parisian platforms because of the crisis". "The rents and rental charges for the premises located in the closed terminals will not be due during the closing period", specifies the group.
Consequence for employees? "We are working on the use of partial activity (technical unemployment, editor's note) " explains Edward Arkwright. A social and economic committee (CSE) is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18.
The impact of the coronavirus is felt every day a little more on the platforms and puts a strain on anticipation. "Two weeks ago, we thought that we should compensate for the absence of employees due to contamination, not that of the activity, this is an unprecedented situation, we have never known anything like it" comments an airport source. Just last week, large companies simply encouraged their employees to ask for holidays ... This was before the worsening of the epidemic and the intervention of the Head of State.
Unions fear layoffs
Decrease in the number of travelers, desertion of hotels, closure of non-food shops, imposed this weekend ... The pharmacies, banks, relays and restaurants remain open only for those who carry out take-out. Everything now goes through room service. As for hotels that do not have one, a meal tray service is available, respecting the safety distances.
Faced with this drastic drop in activity, in the union ranks, we remain attentive to the dismissal procedures that could be initiated.
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The duration of these exceptional measures will in fact have an impact on the recovery of activity. "If only to train security officers it takes several months" recalls a familiar with the platform, according to which "if it lasts until April, the season is dead".
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