Summer strike season - DLP- France - update 2/7

[Carrie_Cat]

Yes it's that time of year again- people are shortly going to be going on holiday so the ATC strike

Air Traffic Controllers have announced their strike for the 2nd and 3rd of July

Normally it's short and medium haul that are the most affected with around 40% of flights cut

At the moment it's too early to say who and what will be affected as they only announced this latest action this afternoon.

Check with your airline nearer the time

The SNCF will be on strike from 19.00 tomorrow 24th June to 8.00 am 26th of June
No idea as yet again what and who will be affected but last March when they did this it was only 10% of traffic that was bothered.

Check with Eurostar and SNCF if you are travelling to DLP indirect

Eurostar along with Eurotunnel were blocked today due to striking workers from MyFerrylink up in Calais

Again check with Eurostar/Eurotunnel as this could be repeated over the coming days as the strikers have nothing to lose - come June 2nd they will have all been made redundant

 

[Carrie_Cat]

Eurostar and Eurotunnel are closed today as there is another fire in the tunnel. Operation stack is in place in the UK and there are many pbs with the ferries into Calais.

Don't forget that the ATC strike called for the 2nd and 3rd of June is still going ahead but the other ATC union called off theirs which was due to start today.

 

[ginrushing]

It appears they have called off the air traffic control strike. Phew! My flight is overnight 7/2-7/3!

http://www.thelocal.fr/20150701/french-air-traffic-control-strike-called-off

 

[Carrie_Cat]

It appears they have called off the air traffic control strike. Phew! My flight is overnight 7/2-7/3!

http://www.thelocal.fr/20150701/french-air-traffic-control-strike-called-off

Yep they said there might be some delays but no cancellations so that's good. Though the long haul flights are very very rarely affected so you would have been ok


Shame Calais and the poor people trying to catch a ferry is still very problematic and volatile

 

[CluelessDisFan]

Do these strikes ever happen in mid September?

 

[Carrie_Cat]

Do these strikes ever happen in mid September?

Honestly yes strikes happen a lot here and they love doing them out of the holiday season (July/August) and you don't know that far ahead. September/October are normally the educational strikes where the 14 years old and up strike against the educational reforms. Then you get the civil servants that are always at it.

Wouldn't worry about it as it is rare that there is no alternative solution say for a transport strike.