A third of Vueling flights canceled Wednesday and Thursday in France due to strike
Be careful if you have to travel for this long Ascension weekend. Around a third of flights operated by Vueling in France will be canceled on Wednesday and Thursday due to a cabin crew strike, the airline announced on Tuesday May 7. The low-cost carrier based in Spain “plans to operate nearly 70% of the flights planned in France for Wednesday May 8 and Thursday May 9 under regular conditions”, he said in a press release.
On April 29, the SNPNC-FO, representative of the company’s hostesses and stewards, filed a strike notice from May 8 to 12, to demand negotiations “loyal” with management on a new company agreement. The CGT also called for work to stop.
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the SNPNC-FO deplored that Vueling had “preferred to provoke a strike rather than bring the unions together and find a solution” and assured that on Wednesday, “22 of the 23 flights with crews from the Paris-Orly base” would be canceled. “The movement, very popular, continues for May 9, 10, 11 and 12,” added the union in a statement sent to AFP, ensuring that it was “totally open for discussion” to find a way out.
For its part, the company said Tuesday “convinced that dialogue and mutual understanding must prevail over the conflict and calls once again on the responsibility of the SNPNC-FO and the CGT to cancel the strike in order to continue negotiations.”
Vueling finally said it was working “in coordination with all teams to minimize disruptions” caused by this social movement and inform “all customers have alternative options available to mitigate, as much as possible, major inconveniences”.
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