Swiss cancels flights to Paris and Nice due to pilots’ strike
Published: Wednesday, Apr 24th 2024, 13:31
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Due to the air traffic controllers' strike in France, Swiss is canceling two flights each from Zurich to Paris and Nice as well as the return flights to Zurich on Thursday. Geneva, on the other hand, will be served by Swiss without restrictions, while Basel is not a Swiss destination anyway.
Around 900 passengers are affected by the eight cancellations from Zurich and back from France, as the airline Swiss announced on Wednesday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Following the failure of negotiations on Monday evening, numerous flight cancellations and delays are looming in France on Thursday. The largest French air traffic controllers' union SNCTA is expecting a "record mobilization". "We consider the negotiations with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) to have failed", a union representative told the AFP news agency on Monday.
The SNCTA and other air traffic controllers' unions had called the strike to protest against plans to reorganize air traffic control in France. The reform is intended to respond to the expected increase in air traffic.
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