NEW DELHI: The European civil aviation authority DGAC has instructed carriers to reduce planes by 70 % at Paris Orly aircraft during the trip due to an air traffic controllers strike.
The refunds may affect commercial flights from earlier Saturday morning until late Sunday evening, according to Reuters reviews.
This hit occurs as Orly, France’s next busiest airport, gears up for a major influx of customers for the future Paris Olympics, set to begin on July 26. It marks the second big air traffic controllers strike within a fortnight, with the earlier one resulting in the withdrawal of many planes across Europe.
Although the past debate was resolved through an arrangement between airport authorities and the principal coalition, SNCTA, the second-largest work team, UNSA-ICNA, called for the latest strike, citing limited staffing levels.
UNSA-ICNA released a statement criticizing the administration at Orly, saying,” The professionals at Orly continue their penny-pinching and merchant accounts which will quickly lead to our team being understaffed” by 2027. The state expressed its disapproval of the attack, with assistant transport secretary Patrice Vergriete telling AFP,” I deplore the conduct of some regional level agents who refuse to recognise the legitimacy of a majority accord and are making passengers pay the price. “
Orly, located south of Paris, is the capital’s second-largest airport after Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle. In the previous year, it served over 32 million passengers. The airport serves as a hub for the national carrier Air France and is the home base for its low-cost subsidiary Transavia. More than 20 other airlines, including easyJet, Iberia, and TAP, operate flights from Orly. The DGAC stated that only flights between Orly and French overseas territories would operate as usual during the weekend.
