Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Seems it may not apply to AF as these strikes are union-planned and advised in advance...but check out the last paragraph reproduced below...
This is irrelevant. If a wildcat strike is not an extraordinary circumstance, a fortiori a planned one would even less so be one. The reasoning of the Court in the case makes that very clear.
I may be mistaken but, AFAIK, AF does not in any event treat strikes by its own staff as extraordinary circumstances and instead follows the same approach as French courts do for force majeure in contract law, viz. distinguishing between strikes affecting the party itself, which are not force majeure/extraordinary circumstances, and strikes by third party, which are.