July 14: New disruptions expected on Lufthansa flights and in Paris airports – 20 Minutes

It’s a real advertisement for the train. After a strike at Paris airports that led to hundreds of flight cancellations and postponements at the start of the summer, travelers are likely to face further disruptions on the eve of the July 14 bridge. A strike at the call of a minority union of hostesses and stewards of the low-cost company Transavia began Wednesday in France, until the end of the weekend. In addition, Lufthansa announced the cancellation of 2,000 additional flights this summer, due to a lack of personnel. word of this subsidiary of Air France. According to the SNPNC, the union calling for the strike, 27 flights have already been canceled for Wednesday. “On July 11, we were already at 130 declared strikers, including 100 cabin crew chiefs” for the day on Wednesday, said Nicolas Bessalam, SNPNC union representative within Transavia. An agreement signed with three of the four trade unions provides for a ” improvement of working conditions on tiring rotations and exceptional purchasing power measures,” said a spokesperson. But the SNPNC is demanding a general and lasting wage increase now, which the company refuses to negotiate before the start of 2023 because it says it is constrained by state-guaranteed loans (PGE). place Wednesday at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle airport at the call of several unions (CGT, SUD-Aérien, CFTC, Unsa, Usapie, FMPS-i) representing ground staff working for subcontractors. This is the third mobilization of this kind after those of June 9 and July 1, but according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), it should not cause major disruption. 2,000 flights canceled at LufthansaThe German airline group Lufthansa also announced on Wednesday the cancellation of 2,000 additional flights this summer, bringing the number of cancellations to more than 7% of flights in July and August from and to Frankfurt and Munich. This is the fourth wave of cancellations announced by the group, of which 7% of the initial plan of 80,000 flights concerning these two airports this summer has now been cancelled. The objective is to “relieve the system”, indicated the spokesperson, while the group is penalized by the heavy shortages of labor from which the whole of the aviation sector suffers. The group underlines however that it “tries to exclude connections to traditional holiday destinations”. It offers alternative flights as much as possible, provided that “there are several connections during the day” for the same destination”.