An unannounced strike by air traffic controllers against the pension reform led to the cancellation of one out of two flights departing from or arriving at Paris-Orly airport on Saturday afternoon, February 11.
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” Considering […] of a certain number of strikers at the Orly air navigation organization”the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) “has asked airlines to reduce their flight schedule by 50% from 1 p.m. for the day”announces the administration in a press release.
The other major airport in the Paris region, Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, is not affected. The Air Navigation Route Centers (CRNA) managing aircraft already in flight over French territory, either, said the DGAC. According to an airport source, these cancellations were to represent “twenty-five arrivals and twenty-two departures” at Orly, especially domestic connections or with countries in the Schengen area.
According to the ADP group, manager of Orly, around 77,000 passengers, including 40,000 on departure and 37,000 on arrival, were expected there on Saturday.
Unlike the first three days of mobilization against the pension reform, the administration had not implemented a minimum service at Orly, which would have involved the preventive cancellation of part of the airline program, announced two days before. National strike notices for the day had no “not relayed by the trade unions within the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, nor followed by a call for a strike from the representative organizations of air traffic controllers”, underlines the DGAC.