The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has asked airlines to cancel 20% of their flights scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at several airports, including Paris-Orly.
The traffic is improving on the side of the RATP but not at the SNCF, for the day of Friday March 10. As part of the mobilization against the pension reform, the strike movement continues on the rail but also in the air. If the traffic therefore improves significantly at the RATP, apart from the RER B which will remain disrupted, the traffic will always be “strongly disturbed” at the SNCF for Friday but also this weekend. From the side of the sky, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked airlines to give up 20 to 30% of their flights departing from and arriving at major airports in France. Franceinfo goes into detail on traffic forecasts.
SNCF traffic still “highly disrupted”
“Train traffic will remain severely disrupted on Friday March 10 on all lines”, assures the SNCF in its press release, which adds: “Traffic forecasts this weekend should remain disrupted in a similar way to Friday, with possible local developments.” On the national network side, count one in two trains on average. In detail, there will be two trains out of five on the North axis, one train out of two on the East axis, two trains out of five on the Atlantic axis, one train out of two on the South-East axis, one train Ouigo out of two, and one train out of ten for province-to-province TGVs. On the international network side, you will have two out of three Eurostar trains, three out of five Thalys trains, one out of three trains for the France-Italy connections, two out of five trains for the France-Germany connections, two out of five trains for the France-Switzerland connections and one train out of four for the France-Spain links.
As for the Intercités, it will take one train out of four on average for those during the day and no train for those at night for the nights of Thursday to Friday and Friday to Saturday. Also count two out of five trains on average for the TER.
For the Paris region, there will be three out of four trains for RER A, one out of two trains for RER B, one out of three trains for RER C, one out of two trains for RER E, two out of three trains for line H and U, one train out of two for lines J, K, L, P and N, one train out of five on average for RER D and line R. Traffic is normal on T4, T11 and there are will have one in two trains on the T13.
“A marked improvement” in traffic at RATP
“The RATP forecasts a marked improvement in traffic compared to the day of March 9”provides management in a statement. Traffic will thus be normal on most Paris metro lines on Friday on the fourth day of a renewable strike at the call of all RATP unions against the pension reform, only the RER B remaining “very disturbed”announced the Régie on Thursday.
There will be only one out of two trains on average at peak times and two out of three trains at off-peak times, on the RER B. On the RER A, there will be an average of three out of four trains. On the metro side, traffic will be normal on all lines, with the exception of line 5 with two trains out of three in the afternoon (normal traffic in the morning), lines 8 and 10 with two trains out of three and line 13 with two out of three trains between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. Traffic will be normal on buses and trams.
Flight cancellations on Friday but also this weekend
In the sky, as since Tuesday and until Friday, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has asked airlines to give up 20 to 30% of their flights departing from and arriving at major airports in the French territory.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) has also asked airlines to cancel 20% of their flights scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at several airports, including Paris-Orly. This reduction in the flight program will concern Orly, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse and Bordeaux on Saturday, while on Sunday, only Orly, Marseille and Toulouse will be affected, the administration said in a press release, reflecting an improvement in the situation for air passengers. from the beginning of this sequence.