New strikes announced by Air France personnel due to Joon
Aug 21, 2017, 3:38 am
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New strikes announced by Air France personnel due to Joon
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https://fd.nl/ondernemen/1215004/air...tschappij-joon
tldr; Strikes announced by AF per Sept 1st. due to job insecurities regarding Joon. First Joon tickets are supposedly to be sold starting at the end of Sept., flying from CDG and are intended to make the currently 1/3rd of the AF long-haul routes currently running at a loss, profitable again.
Also noted is the lack of growth at AF compared to KLM
https://fd.nl/ondernemen/1215004/air...tschappij-joon
tldr; Strikes announced by AF per Sept 1st. due to job insecurities regarding Joon. First Joon tickets are supposedly to be sold starting at the end of Sept., flying from CDG and are intended to make the currently 1/3rd of the AF long-haul routes currently running at a loss, profitable again.
Also noted is the lack of growth at AF compared to KLM
Last edited by Wunk; Aug 21, 2017 at 3:45 am
Aug 21, 2017, 4:12 am
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From http://www.easytravelreport.com/index.html
French general strike is planned for Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Air France Pilot Strike
Air France pilot strike is planned from 9th to 12th of September, 2017.
In line with the general strike.
Striking pilots belong to SPAF pilot union, which is considered a minor union compared to SNPL-ALPA which has 50% or more of Air France pilots enrolled with. Momentum may encourage other Air France unions to join in.
Air France management can easily cover this strike action. Trouble comes as these dates will coincide with a French general strike. If the pilot's don't get you other aviation unions workers will.
French general strike is planned for Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Air France Pilot Strike
Air France pilot strike is planned from 9th to 12th of September, 2017.
In line with the general strike.
Striking pilots belong to SPAF pilot union, which is considered a minor union compared to SNPL-ALPA which has 50% or more of Air France pilots enrolled with. Momentum may encourage other Air France unions to join in.
Air France management can easily cover this strike action. Trouble comes as these dates will coincide with a French general strike. If the pilot's don't get you other aviation unions workers will.
Aug 22, 2017, 2:04 am
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From the way things look, that would not be necessary. In he unlikely event you do get affected by an AF strike, rest assured that AF customer service have become quiet good at handling strikes.
Aug 28, 2017, 9:16 am
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AF Strikes: past experience
Usually these strikes hit short and mid-range Air France flights (within France and Europe). Since they make a bigger profit on tourists and air freight, it seems like AF usually aims to minimize the impact to their long-haul service. Their Operations Alerts usually indicate that all or up to 80% of their long haul flights will operate during strikes.
My past experience trying to get back to Boston during a strike is that they will rotate any cancellations (the 20%) among several cities and try to focus on destinations served by multiple fights (so cancel one JFK or IAD flight, fill up the others). My CDG-BOS flight got hit by the rotating cancellation once and I was routed at the check-in desk from CDG-ATL and back to BOS on Delta. Not bad, same day service, but I got home about 5 hours later than planned (and it hurts to overfly your original destination only to know you've got another 1.5 hours of flight time, a frantic connection through US passport control and then another 2 hour flight home. But just look at all the extra miles you get to accrue ! The worst part of it all is that CDG airport becomes a nightmare of lines and crowds - and you usually won't find out if a flight is operating or cancelled until 2 hours prior, thus, you've checked out of your downtown hotel and made the trip to the airport. Fortunately, CDG has a plethora of airport hotels nearby, avoiding the 55 Euro taxi fare each way if you can't get an alternate flight that day.
My past experience trying to get back to Boston during a strike is that they will rotate any cancellations (the 20%) among several cities and try to focus on destinations served by multiple fights (so cancel one JFK or IAD flight, fill up the others). My CDG-BOS flight got hit by the rotating cancellation once and I was routed at the check-in desk from CDG-ATL and back to BOS on Delta. Not bad, same day service, but I got home about 5 hours later than planned (and it hurts to overfly your original destination only to know you've got another 1.5 hours of flight time, a frantic connection through US passport control and then another 2 hour flight home. But just look at all the extra miles you get to accrue ! The worst part of it all is that CDG airport becomes a nightmare of lines and crowds - and you usually won't find out if a flight is operating or cancelled until 2 hours prior, thus, you've checked out of your downtown hotel and made the trip to the airport. Fortunately, CDG has a plethora of airport hotels nearby, avoiding the 55 Euro taxi fare each way if you can't get an alternate flight that day.