The airline pilots’ union (SNPL) has filed a strike notice from May 6 to 12.
The reason for this movement is twofold.
Professional representation and pension fund
First of all, the law on mobility which will be examined next May and foresees their inclusion in a branch of the “air sector” would indeed make pilots lose weight because of their small number compared to all the professions concerned. The pilots see this as an attack on their representativeness and their ability to negotiate in a specific way for interests that are not industry-wide but category-specific.
In addition, they refuse to accept the disappearance of the Caisse de Retraite des Personnels Navigants (CRPN) (Flying Staff pension fund) provided for in the future pension reform.
A global strike (or almost)
Two more things to know.
First of all and to avoid easy shortcuts it is not an “Air France Strike”. All French airlines are concerned (Aigle Azur, Air Austral, Air Caraïbes, Corsair, XL Airways…) as well as foreign airlines established in France such as Vueling and EasyJet (in concrete terms, all employees in the industry with an employment contract under French law).
The second is that the disappearance of the CRPN concerns all flight crews, including flight attendants. But the unions of the latter have not yet made a statement on the subject and it is not known if they will join the movement.
The pilots are evaluating the possibility of a “hard” strike by means of an internal referendum within the profession.
In these periods of bank holidays for some and vacation departures for others, it is in the passenger’s interest to prefer foreign airlines if they have not yet reserved their tickets.
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