(4 Jul 2025)
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Paris – 4 July 2025
1. Various of departure board showing numerous flight delays and cancellations
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Ben Abd, Paris resident with cancelled flight to Spain:
++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 1/3++
"Everything is ruined for now. We don’t really know if we can have any reimbursement on the flight, on the hotel and everything. So we’re just staying there and just living with the moment and like just the frustration. They only accept if you want to come in just to buy another tickets. So you cannot reclaim anything, it’s not possible. Yeah, they’re basically like just closing. It’s a crazy day actually, like just a crazy moment, you know."
3. Various of travellers
4. Plane taking off
5. Board notice regarding the air traffic strike
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Mariano Mignola, Naples resident:
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"Last night, when we checked in, we realized something was wrong. We went to the airport’s website and discovered the sad news. We came here hoping to find a solution, that the company would provide us with accommodation. But instead, nothing. We have to do everything on our own, but it’s impossible. On the fourth of July in Paris, there’s nothing available, not even a car to drive back, I mean."
7. Various of travellers
STORYLINE:
About 40% of flights were cancelled Friday at all Paris airports due to a strike by French air traffic controllers seeking better working conditions.
Tens of thousands of passengers were left rearranging plans at the height of the summer travel season.
Disruptions started hitting airports around France on Thursday and intensified Friday.
The national civil aviation authority asked airlines to cancel 40 percent of flights Friday at Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Beauvais airports serving Paris, half of flights in Nice and 30 percent of flights in Marseille, Lyon and some other cities.
Despite the preventive cancelations, the authority warned in a statement that ″disruptions and long delays are to be expected at all French airports.”
Ryanair was among airlines that announced widespread disruptions, saying in a statement it cancelled more than 400 flights affecting 70,000 passengers.
The company said the strike affects all its flights over French airspace, as well as traffic in and out of French airports, and urged the European Union to reform air traffic rules.
One of the two unions leading the strike, UNSA-ICNA, said in a statement there are not enough employees to handle surging air travel and that inflation is eating away at salaries.
The unions also are protesting new reform measures aiming to more tightly monitor their work, prompted by a near-collision at the Bordeaux airport.
Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot called the union demands — and their decision to strike just as French schools close for the summer and many families head on vacation — ″unacceptable.″
AP video shot by Oleg Cetinic
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