Transavia Strike Disrupts Summer Travel, Cancels Flights to Morocco and Beyond

The Air France-KLM group’s low-cost carrier states that around 30% of its flights are canceled on Saturday, and 25% on Sunday, due to a strike that started on Wednesday, July 13 and is scheduled to end on Sunday evening, July 17, reports Air Journal. As a result, a portion of the 250 and 265 weekly flights initially planned throughout this weekend of major summer vacation departures will not be operated. "The Transavia France teams are doing everything they can to limit the consequences of this movement on the flight schedule," the company assured on its website. It will specify that customers whose flights have been canceled will receive a notification on the possibilities of rerouting and refunding.

The agreement signed on July 10 by the three other trade unions affiliated with the cabin crew (PNC), including the CGT, the only representative union, was rejected by the minority union SNPNC-FO, which is behind this strike. According to a spokesperson for the Air France-KLM subsidiary, which says it has around 1,400 PNC, this agreement provides for an "improvement in working conditions on tiring rotations and exceptional measures for purchasing power." The management will specify that the customer satisfaction bonus has increased from 500 to 1,000 euros per year, and that the transport bonus as well as the purchasing power bonus have been increased, which is equivalent to an "increase of about 5% for the lowest salaries."

Insufficient to satisfy SNPNC-FO. The latter demands "a general and permanent increase in salaries immediately, which the company refuses to negotiate before early 2023 because it claims to be constrained by the state-guaranteed loans (PGE).