After black Thursday, place to Friday. Mobilization against pension reform is continuing, with new disruptions in transport. Ten closed metro lines and no RER (A and B) at off-peak times, 90% of canceled TGVs as 30% of Air France's domestic flights: rails and airways will remain highly disturbed, on the second day of massive mobilization against pension reform.
SNCF: 9 TGV and 7 TER out of 10 canceled
The SNCF traffic will remain "very disturbed" Friday, according to the direction, which "recommends to the travelers to postpone their displacements". For TGV trains, one out of ten trains will run on the East, North and South East axes, against one out of six trains on the Atlantic axis and for Ouigo trains. There will be no province-province TGV.
On the TER side, "30% of traffic on average" will be provided "essentially" thanks to alternative coaches, slightly improved compared to Thursday (20% of insured traffic), where the strike rate was 55, 6%.
Brittany, Center-Val-de-Loire and Hauts-de-France will be the least served regions, with 90% of TER links canceled, unlike the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, which will be the least affected with half of the deleted TER links.
It also slightly improved in Ile-de-France, where 15% of the Transilien will be in circulation, after only 10% of the RER SNCF and suburban trains insured Thursday.
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No change in international traffic, however, with one Eurostar out of two in circulation, two out of three Thalys, one return trip to Lyria (Paris-Basel). There will be no SVI train between France and Italy, no Alleo between France and Germany, also no Ellipsos train between France and Spain.
Air: short and medium mail affected
While two unions of air traffic controllers call for a strike, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has again urged airlines to reduce by 20% their flight program for Friday, as on Thursday, for airports. Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly, Beauvais, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux. As a result, Air France announced Thursday the cancellation of 30% of its domestic flights and nearly 10% of its medium-haul flights Friday.
Inviting travelers to inquire with their company, the DGAC indicated that it continues "the application of minimum service provisions in air navigation centers and at certain airports", which "will also limit traffic disruption" for Friday.
RATP: 10 closed metro lines
Traffic will remain "extremely disturbed" in Ile-de-France throughout the RATP network with, like Thursday, ten closed metro lines out of 16 (2, 3, 3bis, 5, 6, 7bis, 10, 11, 12 and 13). Will only circulate during peak hours (6:30 to 9:30 and 16:30 to 19:30):
- one out of two RER A and one out of three RER B
- one metro out of three on lines 4 and 7 with several closed stations
- one in four on line 8 between Créteil Pointe du Lac and Reuilly-Diderot
- one out of two on line 9 between Nation and Mairie de Montreuil
The traffic will be normal on the automatic lines 1 and 14 despite a "risk of saturation at peak hours" (6:30 to 9:30 and 16:30 to 19:30), as on the Orlyval line that serves the Orly airport.