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Flights cancelled in France as unions call mass strikes

Flights in and out of France will be cancelled on Friday as unions call for a nationwide walk-out to demand higher pay.

Flights cancelled in France as unions call mass strikes
Photo by STEFANO RELLANDINI / AFP

The intersyndicale – the group that represents France’s eight main union federations – has called for nationwide strikes in multiple sectors on Friday, October 13th.

The group has also called for demos in towns and cities across France as part of a general call for wage increases to help people cope with the rising cost of living.

LATEST What to expect from the strike on Friday, October 13th

France’s civil aviation authority the DGAC has ordered airlines to cancel flights in and out of Paris’ Orly and Beauvais airports, as well as Marseille-Provence airport.

Around 40 percent of flights will be cancelled at Orly, 20 percent at Marseille-Provence and 15 percent at Paris Beauvais.

The rest of the country’s airports should be unaffected.

You can find full details of how Friday’s strike will affect flights, trains, city public transport, roads, schools and other services HERE.

The final decision on which flights to cancel lies with airlines – so anyone with a flight booked between the evening of Thursday, October 12th and the morning of Saturday, October 14th is advised to contact their airline.

You can find the latest in our strike section HERE. 

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Eurostar says may scrap links to Amsterdam from 2025

Eurostar's chief has threatened to scrap the rail route to the Netherlands from 2025 because of doubts over when Amsterdam's international terminal will reopen.

Eurostar says may scrap links to Amsterdam from 2025

“Could the Netherlands be temporarily cut off from one of the most essential rail links in Europe?” Gwendoline Cazenave asked in an editorial for Dutch business daily Het Financieele Dagblad on Wednesday.

The Dutch network was suffering “reliability problems, capacity restrictions and delays that are particularly inconvenient for passengers”, she argued.

The company could cut both its Amsterdam-Rotterdam-London and Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Paris routes in 2025, Cazanave’s editorial said.

“In the absence of clarity from the Dutch rail network (…), Eurostar will be forced to suspend connections between Amsterdam-Rotterdam and London and Paris during 2025”, warns Gwendoline Cazenave.

With Amsterdam’s main station undergoing extensive work since June the direct London route has temporarily closed.

Cazenave said that on various sections of track Eurostar trains had been forced to halve their speed to 80 kph since November.

Since the direct route to London was halted for a scheduled six months through to year’s end, passengers have had to disembark in Brussels for passport control before completing their journey.

The Amsterdam upgrade was meant to take six months, but Eurostar has deplored what it says is the lack of guarantees on a resumption date.

“Eurostar is fully prepared to reopen direct connections at the beginning of 2025, as planned,” said Cazenave.

But other work has also been announced from early 2025 in the station, which would limit the availability of platforms, she added. The London connection requires the station to also provide border control services, as since Brexit the lines crosses an EU external border. 

In 2023, Eurostar said it had carried a total 4.2 million passengers between the Netherlands and France, Britain and Belgium.

French national railway operator SNCF Voyageurs holds a majority stake in Eurostar.

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