The Aeroports de Paris website is showing that there is an air traffic controllers strike due to occur on 12 April 2007. I have contacted my airlines and they are not indicating a problem. I will be flying from Canada overnight on th 12th, arriving at CDG T3 at 0630 on Friday morning.
Starting to get very worried. Does anyone have further information?
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Oh gosh... I know this is not an uncommon thing... if there is one, how long do these things usually last? Is it a symbolic one day thing? Or could it go on for weeks? (I will be flying through CDG on the 19th and again on the 24th, and then departing the 29th).
Thanks!
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Even one day is too many for me. We only have 4 1/2 days there.
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The controllers strike quite regularly and have done so for many years. It%26#39;s almost a scheduled holiday for them.
Usually, international flights arriving from across the Atlantic are minimally impacted. Those arriving CDG with connecting flights onward may find their travel plans altered.
The best course of action might be to remain in contact with your air carrier for situational updates.
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Thanks Sarasto. I have called my airline. So far they%26#39;re not saying there is a problem. I also e-mailed the customer service at CDG (there was a %26quot;contact us%26quot; section on the website) -- they say to check with the airline tomorrow for updates, which we will be doing.
It%26#39;s just turned midnight in Paris now, and I%26#39;m not seeing wholesale flight cancellations on the CDG departures and arrivals schedules, so I%26#39;m hoping for the best.
I guess anyone in Paris with first hand info would probably be asleep by now.
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These strikes are generally announced some days in advance and last at most for 24 hours, usually less. If the strike was announced for April 12 I think it is *highly* likely that there will only be the residual effect of some dislocation to domestic flights come Friday.
I have just checked a number of French news sources and all of them indicate that Orly will be more heavily affected than CDG with perhaps 50% of flights there delayed or cancelled. Fewer than one-third of flights at CDG are expected to be impacted, primarily on short and medium-haul routes.
Air France has announced that it has taken steps to ensure that %26quot;our clientèle will be able to complete their journeys with the minimum dislocation.%26quot; They indicate that some short and medium-haul flights to and from Orly will be affected but that long-haul flights and flights to and from CDG should not be impacted. Generally there is no indication that anyone is bracing themselves for major traffic disruptions.
All in all, I wouldn%26#39;t be too concerned if I were you. Which airline are you flying?
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Oh my stars!
We have a 14 year old traveling on her own arriving from Dulles on United at 6:15 am on the 13th. Should we be making emergency plans?
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See my post above yours. I seriously doubt the strike will affect a flight from the US on Thursday night unless the incoming flight is seriously delayed. Check with UA tomorrow after the scheduled departure time of the flight from CDG.
And relax in the meantime!
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Thanks Irish Rover:
Just freaking out as we finish the last minute details. You are right, just relax and breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out....
Mary
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From Bloomberg news
French Air Traffic Control Strike to Cancel April 12 Flights
By Alan Katz
April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Half of flights in and out of Paris Orly airport and 30 percent of those from Charles de Gaulle airport will be canceled on April 12 as air traffic controllers strike over a plan to move some operations among the airfields.
The strike will affect mainly domestic flights and will run from 6 a.m. local time until 10 p.m. at Orly and about midnight at Charles de Gaulle, said Florence Legrin, a spokeswoman for the French Civil Aviation Authority.
The two biggest unions representing the air traffic controllers at Orly, USAC-CGT and CFDT, called for the strike to protest the transfer of 30 controllers to Charles de Gaulle from Orly in 2011. The Civil Aviation Authority says the moves will be voluntary and temporary.
The aviation authority will group all air traffic controllers in charge of approaching jetliners to a site in Athis-Mons, south of Paris, in 2015.
To contact the reporter on this story: Alan Katz in Paris at akatz5@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: April 10, 2007 11:18 EDT
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