The French branch of the low-cost airline transavia canceled a quarter of Thursday’s scheduled flights due to a union-called strike hostesses and stewards demanding a general increase in wages, we learned from the company. Some 250 flights were scheduled for the day, according to the company.
The social movement, at the call of the minority union SNPC, must continue until the end of the weekend. The company was unable to assess Thursday followingnoon what its impact would be on flights scheduled for Friday. The union rejects an agreement recently signed by the three other union organizations affiliated with cabin crew (PNC).
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This agreement provides for “improvement of working conditions on tiring rotations and exceptional measures of purchasing power”, said a spokesperson for the Air France-KLM subsidiary, which says it has around 1,400 cabin crew members. The customer satisfaction bonus has thus increased from 500 to 1,000 euros annually and the transport and purchasing power bonuses have been increased, which is equivalent to an “increase of around 5% for low salaries”, according to management.
The SNPC is demanding a general and permanent increase in wages now, which the company refuses to negotiate before the start of 2023 because it says it is constrained by state-guaranteed loans (PGE). “The Transavia France teams are doing everything they can to limit the consequences of this movement on the flight schedule,” assured the subsidiary.
But many customers whose flight was canceled let their exasperation show on social networks. “Thank you for ruining our holidays family”, tweeted one of them who was to fly to Algeria.
