(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) About 20 percent of flights in France - mostly on domestic and southern European routes - are expected to be cancelled beginning Tuesday as air traffic controllers begin what they warn could be a six-day work stoppage.
Sources at Aeroport de Paris (ADP) said about 4,000 air traffic controllers have been called on to down tools by unions, but only part of the staff are expected to heed the call.
Certain unions have decided to call off the industrial action which would have paralysed traffic here.
ADP and the Civil Aviation Directorate warned that about "one-in-five" flights would be cancelled with some delays to others. Long-haul flights are not expected to be affected.
But flights to southern France, Spain and North Africa will be hit by the union action. Unions are against reforms in the civil aviation sector across Europe, generally, and they want more resources pumped into the sector in France, which they say is not technologically modern enough and is functioning with ageing equipment.
The aviation sector strike follows a 10-day work stoppage in the national rail sector, which ended on Saturday and crippled transport and stranded passengers, as well as costing hundreds of millions of Euros in lost revenues.
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