Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle airport: a quarter of flights canceled due to a strike

For the day of Wednesday, June 8, ADP announces that a social movement of security personnel affects airports. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS

About a quarter of the flights scheduled for Thursday, June 9 at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG) airport are canceled due to a social movement at the airport, announced Aéroports de Paris (ADP).

All unions at Roissy airport (CGT, FO, CFDT, CFTC, CFE-CGC, UNSA and SUD) call on all employees of the platform to mobilize to demand a salary increase of 300 euros “unconditionally, for all”. “Despite the resumption of traffic and the profits made, our work is not paid at its fair value”the unions are indignant in a joint leaflet. “Everything increases, except our salaries”they denounce.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked companies to reduce their number of flights between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday, while several European airports have recently faced enormous difficulties in managing travelers due to lack of staff.

Air France, the main company operating at the Paris – Charles-de-Gaulle hub, announced that it had canceled 85 short and medium-haul flights on Thursday to meet DGAC requirements. “Schedule changes on long-haul flights” are also planned, added the company, specifying that “the customers concerned will be contacted directly”.

Shortage of staff at European airports

At the end of April, the president of ADP had announced that 4,000 positions were to be filled on the airport platforms of Orly and Roissy, faced with major recruitment problems. After two lean years linked to the pandemic, air traffic is restarting at full speed in Europe and is gradually returning to its 2019 levels.

In some European airports, the lack of staff has already led to huge chaos such as Amsterdam-Schiphol or Frankfurt, where flights have had to be canceled in recent weeks, due to shortages of ground staff. In the UK, hundreds of flights were canceled last week for the same reason.

For the day on Wednesday, ADP announces that a social movement of security personnel affects airports. “Long waiting times are to be expected at controls at Roissy-CDG and Paris-Orly. (…) Plan to arrive at the airport at least three hours before your international flight and two hours before your domestic or medium-haul flight. »

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The World with AFP