Several French airports, including Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly near Paris, will be affected this weekend by new strikes for wages, with cancellations and possible delays at the key to a week of summer school holidays.
These social movements, against a backdrop of high inflation and a clear recovery in traffic after the Covid-19 pandemic, will result in the cancellation of some 17% of flights departing from or arriving at Paris-Charles-de- Gaulle (CDG) between 07:00 and 14:00, according to the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC).
The preventive cancellations, which will represent 10% of aircraft movements at CDG throughout the day, were requested by the administration as a safety measure because the firefighters have been on strike since Thursday, forcing part of the runways to be closed. of the first French airport.
The fire soldiers "demand a bonus for technicality and a revaluation of the grid" of salaries, given "the difficulties of recruitment", explained to AFP Daniel Bertone, CGT secretary general of the airport manager, Groupe ADP .
A “multi-sectoral” strike
In addition, Friday and all weekend, the employees of the Parisian airport platforms are called upon to join a “multi-sectoral” and inter-union strike, including ADP and its subcontractors, in the extension of that of June 9.
This social movement, with rallies planned in front of terminals 2E of CDG and 4 of Orly on Friday, risks slowing down the flow of passengers approaching the installations and at the filtering inspection posts.
Baggage sorting could also be affected.
These frictions "generate delays which can lead to flight cancellations, once the delay is too great", noted Bertone, even if his counterpart at the CFE CGC, Rachid Eddaidj, said he was uncertain of the consequences of the movement. on operations.
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