Airlines will have to cancel one flight in five, Saturday morning July 2, at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle airport, due to the continuation of a strike, the general direction of aviation announced on Friday. civil (DGAC).
“In the absence of a resolution of the conflict, airlines are asked to reduce their flight schedule” between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. “up to 20%”departing and arriving from the first French airport, said the administration while the CGT called for a new weekend of mobilization, July 9 and 10, i.e. at the start of the summer school holidays.
“The movement continues among firefighters”which are “dissatisfied with management’s proposals”confirmed to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Daniel Bertone, the general secretary of the CGT of Groupe ADP, the manager of Paris airports.
Already 17% of flights canceled on Friday
This strike movement has already disrupted air traffic on Friday. The DGAC had asked companies to preventively cancel 17% of flights arriving or departing from Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle on Friday morning, a social movement by firefighters having forced the runways to be closed since Thursday.
This represents 100 aircraft movements out of the 1,300 planned for the day, Groupe ADP told AFP. Traffic at Orly is, however, not affected, according to the same source.
Friday, the firefighters were joined by other employees of ADP and subcontractors as part of an inter-union and inter-professional movement, the notice of which runs throughout the weekend.
Salary increase
“Since the Covid crisis, quite a few colleagues have been made redundant. You end up doing the work of three people.”testifies Anissa Belabbas, regulator, employee of Alyzia (3S Group) and CGT representative. “We are asking for a salary increase and better working conditions. We need people who know the business. Otherwise you are asked for higher rates »she adds.
“We are already at 6% inflation, at the end of the year, how much will it be? The battle has only begun (…). The only guarantee we can have is to index wages to prices.launched a CGT union representative of ADP before the start of a demonstration of some 300 people between the terminals.
This punctually blocked road access to the airport, according to ADP, which also pointed “a few delays” of departing planes, but “no blocking zone” due to strikers at inspection posts or handling. At 11.30 a.m., of all the flights displayed at terminal 2E, less than 10 were declared late.
In total, “208,000 passengers are planned” this Friday, an airport source told AFP, adding that the situation was ” rather quiet “. At Air France, the cancellations concern short and medium-haul flights, long-haul flights not being affected.
Restructuring
At the call of an inter-union FO-CGT-CFE-CGC, a strike notice was also filed from Friday to Monday at Marseille-Provence airport, but its management did not foresee either cancellation or delay, personnel having been requisitioned by prefectoral order.
The strikers denounce a restructuring aiming, according to the FO union representative Olivier Traniello, to “drastically reduce the staff (…) as we return to 2019 traffic, or even higher, with teams that are no longer ready and armed to deal with it”. They are also protesting against reductions in premiums.
ADP employees demand salary increases of 6%, retroactive to 1er January, while management proposes 3% on 1er July, according to the unions. The group did not wish to comment on this point.
Groupe ADP, affected, like the entire aviation sector, by the pandemic, has launched a plan of voluntary departures and salary reductions, accompanied by the promise of a return to the same level of treatment once traffic returns to normal. pre-crisis level, which is partially the case.