Air France strike Saturday: best flights, delays expected

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Air France plans to affect flights on Saturday, while several of the ground staff unions on strike, cross the guests.

"Air France is planning its long-haul flights, almost all their flights for short and medium distance, but delays are expected throughout the day," the company said in a statement on Thursday evening.

The spokesman stressed that all flights and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport and other airports may require hold shares Friday.

"Hundreds of volunteers were mobilized to strengthen the staff of Air France," said the company, which said it regretted "the situation and inconvenience can drive your customers."

The on-site staff (handling agents, the song ...), is expected to 12:00 clock in the afternoon meet 1:00 Orly and Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and regional airports in protest against the deterioration of the performance of the CGT on a first category, air and UNSA south.

FO also filed a notice of strike on the same day, but only in Roissy, CFE-CGC calls for a strike in the trade.

Movement occurs when it is expected that one million passengers over the weekend (Friday to Sunday) in Roissy and Orly, Roissy including 215,000 on Saturday only. This weekend is one of the busiest airports in Paris.

Air France advises its customers s? Register online before the airport.

The Company will update the information available on its website and mobile applications and utilities, he said, "now in its solutions for customers to carry a passenger without charge."

According to airport sources, the strike will affect 45% of the employees of Air France at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle.

CGT staff in place to organize strikes from November 2013 to the working conditions of transformation affect 2015, the EU has not been signed.

The event is at 11:00 clock Roissy for "the protection of local employment," and instead of "against outsourcing." The petition should also "undo Diard Act", which requires 48 hours before the strike, the individual traffic for businesses to get better at the strike.

Transform 2015 was launched to reach two million euros in savings over three years and reduce debt, which has thousands of job cuts the company has a plan in 2012.

The success of that plan, Air France-KLM Group announced the outlines of a plan for "growth and competitiveness" in the next five years.