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Strike by French Air Traffic Controllers Causes Flight Delays and Cancellations
- French air traffic controllers went on strike, causing hundreds of flight cancellations across Europe and affecting families and travelers significantly.
- On Thursday, 933 flights were canceled, and 25% of flights at Paris airports were affected.
- The government criticized the strike, stating that it impacted over 500,000 people and urged for legislative protection of overflights.
- UNSA-ICNA, the second largest labor group, protested against chronic understaffing and outdated equipment, leading to the strike.
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n1info.rsJust hours before the end of the school year and the first major departures for the summer holidays and vacations, some had to reorganize their plans as more than 1,000 flights were canceled in France today, particularly at Paris airports and in Nice, on the second day of a strike by air traffic controllers.
It is chaos in Amsterdam. Due to all the work, traffic is at a standstill and that has serious consequences for public transport, taxi drivers and entrepreneurs. "I have seen people walking on the highway to catch their flight."
For some tour operators, the strike has never been seen in terms of the consequences on customers. Hundreds of thousands of travellers have been deprived for the second day in a row. Air traffic controllers have pushed the companies to remove more than a thousand flights, not to mention the shipwrecked yesterday, Thursday, July 3. According to our information, the SNCF records twice as many last-minute bookings on TGVs abroad. (Transports).
In France, air traffic controllers strike, demanding improvements in working conditions; the number of cancelled flights has exceeded 900 and can grow several times.
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