Paris (AFP)

The Airline Pilots Union (SPL) of Transavia France, which wants to participate in the negotiations on the development of the company, has filed a strike notice for the return, he said Sunday, the last day of strike hostesses and stewards at the call of the CGT.

This notice runs from September 1 to October 15, said in a statement the SPL, the second representative union of pilots at Transavia France, low cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group.

Referring to the draft agreement reached in July within Air France between management and drivers of the SNPL union for the development of Transavia France, the SPL stresses that this agreement "is still not signed, since the SNPL Air France has decided to modify it ", and" deplores "that the trade unions" representative of Transavia "are" once again not invited to negotiations ".

For the SPL, "such an agreement can not be negotiated without the trade union organizations of Transavia". "It is not acceptable that outside trade unions come to negotiate our future, our working conditions and our salaries," adds the SPL, which "demands strict respect for the representative bodies of Transavia staff and its representative unions".

The CGT, the first union at Transavia France, which called hostesses and stewards to strike from Friday to Sunday, also asked to "participate, actively, in all discussions and negotiations on the development" of the company.

The management of Transavia France said Sunday that these "ongoing discussions" were on "a draft group agreement", which is "negotiated with representative unions" pilots "at the level of the group" Air France is to say "the SNPL and the SPAF". "The negotiation of a group agreement is allowed by the law of August 8, 2016" (El Khomri law), the management said in a statement.

In addition, said a spokesman for the direction to AFP, "an exchange meeting was held on June 14 with the SPL".

Sunday, the last day of the strike of hostesses and stewards, the traffic of Transavia France was in line with forecasts, with 95% of the flights insured, according to the spokesman.

At the end of July, the SNPL Air France pilots approved by referendum the abandonment of the maximum quota of 40 aircraft imposed in 2014 on Transavia France in order to limit the transfer of Air France's activity to this subsidiary.

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