If you’re planning a year-end journey to France, remember: Unionized cabin crew members at Air France could also be placing from Dec. 22, 2022, to Jan. 2, 2023.
French unions Union des Navigants de L’Aviation Civile and Syndicat des Navigants du Groupe Air France have warned {that a} strike motion might happen over the Christmas and New Year interval, amid a dispute over working situations.
The unions filed a strike discover after a collective settlement between workers and administration — first put in place in 1999, and being renegotiated this fall — was not prolonged when it expired in October 2022.
Without the collective settlement, the airline has the ultimate say over the cabin crew and flight workers’s work schedules.
The main sticking level for unions is the ratio of cabin crew to passengers on long-haul flights, in response to a report by Le Monde. One flight attendant to each 48 passengers was the norm, however Air France initially wished to see the passenger quantity rise to 51, reportedly for profitability.
The airline has since dropped its ask all the way down to 50 passengers per cabin crew member.
Related: Are you entitled to compensation in case your flight is affected by strikes?
Simple Flying additionally notes that salaries are at difficulty within the dispute, particularly if the brand new ratio comes into power. However, some 38,000 cabin crew, pilots and floor workers for Air France obtained a 1,000-euros bonus ($1,034.19) and a 5% pay improve in September.
Air France has mentioned it had “taken notice of the strike discover” — although it added that negotiations on reinstating the collective settlement are resulting from proceed past January 2023.
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Note that in case your flight is affected by a strike motion you’ll be entitled to a full refund and possibly even compensation.
Strikes affecting flights to and from France aren’t information to common vacationers. Around 50% of French flights had been canceled on Sept. 16 this 12 months (a reported 1,000-plus flights), as air visitors controllers took motion over pay and dealing situations.
Walkouts have been commonplace throughout Europe in current months, with numerous air journey strikes hitting Spain, Portugal, Italy and others, on high of numerous U.Okay. practice strikes affecting journey.
However, some walkouts have been averted, too.
A strike deliberate by British Airways floor workers at London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR) was narrowly averted in July, and Scandinavian airline SAS and German service Lufthansa struck offers with pilots in September amid union discussions.