On the occasion of the ninth day of interprofessional mobilization against the pension reform, traffic will be “very strongly disturbed” in trains. The SNCF announced Wednesday March 22 to be able to run only half of its TGV Inoui and Ouigo and a third of its TER this Thursday.
In the Paris region, traffic will also be affected with between 20% and 50% of trains maintained, depending on the RER lines. No Intercités train will run, with the exception of two round trips Paris-Clermont-Ferrand and Paris-Brive.
On Tuesday, the RATP also warned that almost all of the Paris metro lines would be affected by the strike movement. Only the automated lines (1 and 14) will operate normally. On the others, the trains will run at variable times during the day, at the rate of one in two or three. Some stations will be closed. One out of two RERs will run on lines A and B.
30% of flights canceled at Paris-Orly
On the air side, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) is asking companies to cancel 30% of their flights Thursday at Paris-Orly and 20% at other airports due to the controllers’ strike. “From Wednesday evening March 22, 2023 until Friday March 24, 2023 at 6 a.m., air traffic will be disrupted departing from and arriving at Paris-Orly, Marseille-Provence, Toulouse and Lyon airports”specifies the DGCA. “Cancellations and delays are to be expected. »
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The Marseille-Provence, Toulouse-Blagnac and Lyon-Saint-Exupéry platforms are affected by the cancellation of one in five flights on departure or arrival.
Air France announced for its part that it planned for Thursday to ensure “95% of its flight schedule, including all of its long-haul flights and its flights to and from Paris-Charles de Gaulle”, the first French airport. Nevertheless, “last minute delays and cancellations cannot be ruled out”, warned the company. For its part, Transavia, “low cost” of the Air France-KLM group, has listed on its website thirty canceled flights.