However on Friday, the scenario dangers being much more extreme with the DGAC asking firms to cancel 40 per cent of flights to cope with the strike.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou described the strike as “stunning”.
“Selecting the day when everybody goes on vacation to go on strike at air visitors management is taking the French hostage,” he informed BFMTV.
“UNACCEPTABLE”
The consequences of the strike will not be restricted to France, and the stoppage has triggered lots of of cancellations of flights that fly over the nation.
The European Airways for Europe (A4E) affiliation mentioned 1,500 flights can be cancelled on Thursday and Friday in Europe, affecting 300,000 passengers.
“French air visitors management already delivers a few of Europe’s worst delay figures, and now the actions of a minority of French air visitors management staff will needlessly disrupt the vacation plans of 1000’s of individuals in France and throughout Europe,” mentioned A4E chief Ourania Georgoutsakou.
The affiliation mentioned the strikes additionally precipitated “nearly 500,000 minutes” in delays in Europe on Thursday on practically 33,000 business flights.
