Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Pilots strike: Air France backpedaling – Knack.be

Pilots strike: Air France backpedaling – Knack.be

Whether the pilots go back to work is not yet clear. Their unions SNPL and SPAF have not yet responded.

The pilots are ten-day strike.

As more carriers tries Air France-KLM to compete with the competition from low-cost carriers Ryanair and easyJet .

To this end, in the first body Transavia France and Transavia Netherlands was founded.

Air France wanted to expand the lowcost section through Transavia Europe . Transavia Europe would rotations from airports outside France and the Netherlands. At the same time, Air France flights reduce onerous within France and Europe.

The pilots oppose the plan because they feared that it would go out of their employment. Expense

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French government that the turnaround came hours before the board had made the prospect of a decision urged the pilots to return to work to go.

The strike were removed hundreds of daily flights. The actions have already cost the company 300 million euros, with the calculation. Compensation to passengers

The action of the pilots is not popular with some of the other staff, which has heavy handed to make. Decontamination possible There, one finds that the pilots rashly went on strike and put the credit and the future of society is at stake.

( Belga / RR )

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