Strike Bytes: Air France Pilots | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-05.06.24

Airborne-NextGen-04.30.24

Airborne-Unlimited-05.01.24 Airborne-AffordableFlyers--05.02.24

Airborne-Unlimited-05.03.24

Tue, Feb 04, 2003

Strike Bytes: Air France Pilots

The four-day strike by Air France pilots grounded some 200 of the carrier's scheduled flights on Sunday, making a dent in the schedule, but hardly crippling the airline -- in line with expectations of all but the pilots' union.

A three-union consortium, led by 600-pound gorilla SNPL, wants higher pay.

The strike is scheduled to last through Wednesday; but as each day passes, travelers and the airline are better-able to cope. Odds for the pilots' getting more money, when the demand for their services is shrinking, are low. Sunday was the pilots' best shot; and they were able to stop just about one flight in nine -- inconvenient, but far from crucial.

The SNPL union led a ten-day strike against Air France in 1998, which resulted in most pilots' wages' actually being cut. Some think the lot of the industry, right now, is not amenable to such extra economic demands.

FMI: www.airfrance.fr

Advertisement

More News

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.04.24)

Aero Linx: JAARS Nearly 1.5 billion people, using more than 5,500 languages, do not have a full Bible in their first language. Many of these people live in the most remote parts of>[...]

NTSB Final Report: Quest Aircraft Co Inc Kodiak 100

'Airplane Bounced Twice On The Grass Runway, Resulting In The Nose Wheel Separating From The Airplane...' Analysis: The pilot reported, “upon touchdown, the plane jumped back>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.04.24)

"Burt is best known to the public for his historic designs of SpaceShipOne, Voyager, and GlobalFlyer, but for EAA members and aviation aficionados, his unique concepts began more t>[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (05.05.24)

"Polaris Dawn, the first of the program’s three human spaceflight missions, is targeted to launch to orbit no earlier than summer 2024. During the five-day mission, the crew >[...]

Read/Watch/Listen... ANN Does It All

There Are SO Many Ways To Get YOUR Aero-News! It’s been a while since we have reminded everyone about all the ways we offer your daily dose of aviation news on-the-go...so he>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC