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Air France Four Day Strike Begins

14th November 2008 French airline pilots' unions have unanimously called a four-day strike from Friday 14 November at one minute past midnight to Monday 17 November at midnight, to protest against changes to the retirement age currently under discussion in the French Parliament (changing from 60 to 65)

Air France is expecting very severe disruptions to its operations and apologizes to passengers in advance for this highly regrettable situation.

Air France's normal daily flight schedule comprises 760 medium-haul flights from all its stations and 73 long-haul flights from Paris.

As for Friday November 14th, 60% of Air France long-haul flights and 50% of its short and medium-haul flights are maintained.

Disruption on our partners' network (Brit Air, CityJet, Régional, CCM and Airlinair) should be less important and should mainly affect BritAir. Around 80% of our partners scheduled flights will operate.

The flight schedule to be operated each day will be published the evening before at about 8 pm. Air France cannot however rule out the risk of last-minute cancellations, i.e. at the time of departure.

Passengers who intend to continue with their trip as planned should find out whether their flight is likely to operate by consulting the the "Book on line / Flight status" on the Air France website, which will be constantly updated with detailed flight cancellation information.

Air France will of course do its utmost to ensure that its passengers are transferred to other airlines, depending on space available.

Further Information: www.airfrance.co.uk

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