A quarter of flights canceled Thursday morning at Paris-CDG airport due to a strike – Le Figaro

The number of flights will be reduced between 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. following a strike by airport staff demanding wage increases. About a quarter of the flights scheduled for Thursday morning at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport have been canceled due to a strike by airport staff demanding higher wages, said Aéroports de Paris (ADP) . Read alsoEnergy strikers cause power cuts The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked companies to reduce their number of flights between 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Thursday, while several European airports have recently been confronted enormous difficulties in managing travelers due to a lack of staff. Air France, the main company operating at the Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle hub, announced that it had canceled 85 short and medium-haul flights on Thursday to meet DGAC requirements. “Schedule changes on long-haul flights” are also planned, added the company, specifying that “the customers concerned will be contacted directly”. Read alsoFrench diplomats on strike for the second time in their history A request for a salary increase of 300 euros “unconditionally” All the unions at Roissy airport (CGT, FO, CFDT, CFTC, CFE-CGC , Unsa and SUD) call on all employees of the platform to mobilize to demand a salary increase of 300 euros “unconditionally, for all”. “Despite the resumption of traffic and the profits made, our work is not paid at its fair value,” the unions are indignant in a joint leaflet. “Everything increases, except our remuneration”, they denounce. For FO, “the chaos suffered for several weeks by employees working on the many airport platforms in France and Europe is intolerable”. The union estimates that 15,000 the number of jobs lost in two years in the aviation sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which results in “pressurized employees”. Read also Cancellations, delays, strike: chaos continues in British transport At the end of April, the president of ADP announced that 4,000 positions were to be filled on the airport platforms of Orly and Roissy, faced with major recruitment problems. After two years of lean times linked to the pandemic, air traffic is restarting at full speed in Europe and is gradually returning to its 2019 levels. In some European airports, the lack of staff has already led to huge chaos, such as in Amsterdam -Schiphol or Frankfurt, where flights have had to be canceled in recent weeks due to staff shortages on the ground. In the UK, hundreds of flights were canceled last week for the same reason. SEE ALSO – “It takes hours”: at Amsterdam airport, the lack of staff causes long queues