The ersatz flight cancellations, to and from France, will certainly continue for the next two days, at least. Indeed, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in France on Wednesday demanded that airlines give up 20 to 30% of their flights on Thursday and Friday, like the two previous days, due to the strike of the air traffic controllers opposed to pension reform.
This social movement forced the DGAC to ask carriers to “reduce their flight schedule by 20% at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport and by 30% at Paris-Orly, Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Montpellier, Nice and Toulouse,” she said in a statement.
The share of canceled flight schedules and the airports affected are exactly the same as Tuesday and Wednesday.
For these two days, Air France had said it planned to operate “nearly eight flights out of 10” while the low-cost Transavia, a member of the Air France-KLM group and present on the short and medium-haul, canceled 30% of its program, i.e. between 40 and 50 uninsured journeys per day.
“Despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected” Thursday and Friday, the DGAC stressed on Wednesday, inviting “passengers who can to postpone their trip and to find out from their airline. to find out the status of their flight.
The French air traffic controllers’ strike caused “moderate” to “high” delays on Wednesday on certain routes passing through French airspace, the traffic monitoring body Eurocontrol noted on its online dashboard.
In Morocco, let us recall that the national company Royal Air Maroc announced, on March 6, the cancellation of some of its flights scheduled for the day of the 7th, from and to Paris.
