After the strike planned for this Thursday, towards a new mobilization in the air during the Ascension Bridge? The National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (SNCTA), the main union of air traffic controllers, announced on Tuesday that it had filed a second strike notice for the days of May 9, 10 and 11.
The union, which contests the overhaul of air traffic control in France and demands compensation measures and salary increases, deplored in a press release the failure of conciliation, “particularly on the question of social support”. He again gives 15 days to public authorities to “engage in the search for solutions”.
This Thursday, the movement should be “strongly followed”, according to the main organization bringing together air transport companies (Fnam). “We were told about 75% [of canceled flights] at Orly and 65% at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. It will have a huge impact,” announced its president, Pascal de Izaguirre. The SNCTA evokes “a record mobilization for the strike day of Thursday April 25 which testifies to the determination of air traffic controllers to obtain fair recognition of the profession”.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) must communicate its flight cancellation forecasts late Tuesday afternoon. In addition to the cancellations, we must expect “very big delays,” a national secretary of the SNCTA told AFP, on condition of anonymity. The air traffic control reform aims to “increase productivity”, according to an SNCTA official. The union wishes to “support this search for performance” via salary increases which would bring them closer to “European social standards”, according to the same source.