The strike could threaten the entire Air France – Flygtorget

The strike could threaten the entire Air France – Flygtorget

 Air France
 

 
 Today is Tuesday, all Air France flights between Stockholm and Paris set. Tomorrow two of the departures from Arlanda, AF 1463, at 06.30 and AF 1263, at 13:10. However cope Gothenburg aside some cancellations today and tomorrow.

Further than that extends not planning at Air France during the strike because the pilot compartment provides information 48 hours prior to which flights are affected. The website calls the company passengers to rebook their travel until September 26. You can also make free rebooking so long until that until 13 October.

The conflict between the pilots and the airline does not seem to get closer to a solution for the strike, now entering its second week, after a vote among the strikers pilots. Neither a proposal by airlines to put all plans on the construction of Transavia as a lågkostnadsverksamhet within Air France on hold until December, could appease the French pilot union SNPL.

Every day, basically every flight into, some days up to 60 percent of the traffic, and so far more than 3,000 flights have been in, which in turn touched closer to a half million passengers. The strike now ranks as the costliest in the airline’s history and in money it costs between 10-15 million per day. This means that losses so far have passed 100 million.

The huge losses do now that warnings are raised to the conflict may jeopardize the future of the company. Among others, the French transport minister Alain Vida Lies in a public statement stated that “the future of the entire Air France is now at stake,” and he therefore intends to take an active role in trying to resolve the conflict.

At the same time slot in other parts of Air France, including ramp staff, prepared to provide pilots with support sympathy action. It would then turn against both Air France but also against the French airports. At CDG, where the airline has its major hub, they have reduced passenger flows are beginning to emerge among the shops and restaurants that sees revenues fall.

But there are also those who profit from the gap that has arisen since the increasing number of Air France flights remain on the ground. Other airlines operating flights to and from France has also seen a sharp increase in passengers in the same way as the French national railway company SNCF. Among others, easyJet has increased capacity by 1,300 seats in the two domestic routes as the company flies, Paris – Nice and Paris – Toulouse.

It’s just the competition that is the triggering factor behind the ongoing conflict. Air France KLM wants along with moving over a large part of the short-and medium-haul traffic on Transavia and build bases outside France in including Lisbon and Munich. It is an action in line with what other traditional network airlines are planning or have already put in the work. But the French pilots believe that it is just a way for the airline to move away jobs overseas and destroy the French labor market for pilots. This requires, inter alia, that the pilots within Transavia be exactly the same wages and benefits as those that apply within Air France.

On this point, the striking pilots of Air France no support from the political leadership. In a radio interview, said French Transport Minister to “lågkostnadsverksamhet is not a choice, it is a compulsion and a reality in the industry.”