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Airplanes Avoid French Skies, Hundreds Of Planes Grounded Due To French Air Traffic Strike
The US had snow in the winter to "explain" why for the second year in a row Q1 GDP tumbled from 3% to around 0%; Europe, whose GDP unlike its market (the Stoxx 600 just hit a record high) will also miss lofty expectations for an economic recovery thanks to ECB money printing, may have a French air traffic controllers strike to blame the Q2 GDP miss for.
Yesterday, the SNCTA union - France's largest - called the two-day strike in a dispute over working conditions. As BBC reports, later on Wednesday, the DGAC civil aviation authority asked airlines to halve scheduled flights on Thursday.
The immediate result: hundreds of flights and thousands of passengers have been grounded.
Short-haul flights have been the worst affected but France's largest airline, Air France, said long-haul flights were still operating.
The airline added that 60% of medium-haul flights from and to Paris' main airport, Charles de Gaulle, would still operate, but that it would ground two out of three flights at Paris' second-largest airport, Orly.
"Disruption is expected over the whole country," the DGAC said in a statement. Travellers have been advised to contact their airline.
What is the reason for the strike: France's civil aviation agency said part of the dispute involves plans to raise the retirement age for controllers from 57 to 59 years.
Further strikes are planned for 16 to 18 April and 29 April to 2 May, coinciding with spring school holidays in France.
Low-cost airline Ryanair says it has had to cancel more than 250 flights, with further cancellations likely, while competitor Easyjet has been forced to cancel 118 flight.
"We sincerely apologise to all customers affected by this unwarranted strike action and we call on the EU and French authorities to take measures to prevent any further disruption," said Ryanair in a statement.
"It's grossly unfair that thousands of European travellers will once again have their travel plans disrupted by the selfish actions of a tiny number of French ATC [air traffic control] workers."
Travellers booked on short and medium-haul Air France flights on Wednesday or Thursday can choose to travel between 10 and 15 April instead, it said.
The most notable outcome, is that the skies over France are rapidly becoming comparable to those over east Ukraine.
LIVE Again today, due of ATC strike in France, many flights are avoiding French air space: http://t.co/nimcSB9JZs pic.twitter.com/ZVzGwy80At
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) April 9, 2015
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France surrenders.....just in case.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.
Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable
FDR 1937
FDR was just another short-sighted govt cunt who loved to expand uncle sam's totalitarianism. He knew exactly that these union pussies and parasites would become dictatorial extortionist pricks, and he didn't care because he was one too. He only made that statement above to make his lying bullshit sound politically plausible.
I personally hope he rests in pain, as all politicians should.
I found stacker's FDR quote very interesting. FDR? He was a US President at a time when the Bellamy_salute was very popular, in the US
are we still in France?
It's not that surprising really if you know early 20th century socialist history. The first thing Hitler's National Socialist Party did was to outlaw Unions, same for Lenin. In their eyes The State is all and must not ever be threatend. FDR starts off that letter like a good socialist, but ends it like a 1930's euro-facist would.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15445
none of that makes the statement any less true even if FDR had different motives behind it then you or I would apply.....
agreed, except for some quibbles about the part where national socialism is compared to fascism and socialism
I think Judge Napolitano, a US Libertarian, said it best (paraphrased, from memory): trade unions are a liberal institution. Libertarians, he claimed, are for trade unions, as part of a healthy market for labour
but I agree a bit with FDR: state service should not become captive of hard collective bargaining. imho state service should be less well paid, but with better job security then it's private counterparts
but I would also put a quota of how much of the labour market should ever become state service, and push that quota as low as possible, for sure lower then today's France
Judge Napolitano, a libertarian... you must be kidding.
Libertarians do not support oligopolistic cartels.
There is a fine distinction which you as usually deliberately overlook:
True Libertarians would be for trade unions, as in plural, for the same trade.
So members of the trade can chose a different trade union if they feel the one they're in is veering off too far of a reasonable path.
Self-declared Liberals usually find no fault (or even prefer) if there exists only one trade union for a certain trade.
They fail to see that is just another type of monopoly.
Why the bitching?
I, for one, welcome the fact there still exists unions with bargaining power...
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@GetZeeGold ... Just in case ...
Ah, the 'ol French surrender jokes !
This kind of ugly disdain and nasty jokes come from the firm refusal of the French to join America in Irak, in 2003. Since France refused to go to Iraq, American warmongers and neo-cons made French army look like cowards – as a punishment. Surrender jokes are the left overs of the 2003 Bush hate fest against the French.
But History has proved the French were right, and that the WMD were only a dirty trick to serve as a pretext.
Nevertheless, the hate of American warmongers against France remains still there, well alive, even in ZH.
This stale hate still shows through "innocent good jokes" about the “surrender monkeys” and their white flag … As for the rest, the French can be proud of their Military History which remains despite these stupid jokes the best military record in Europe.
Travail fait mal à la tête
[Working makes my head hurt]
Well if your hairs too curly, that could happen every morning you wake up.
Although I have little sympathy for the French and their neverending strikes, you also have also to wonder about those authorities and all companies and big corporations. Everybody wants people to spend more money, Draghi and Yellen want their holy 2% inflation target, but the net result is that when it actually comes down to paying a good salary then everybody wants to cut costs and EVERYBODY ELSE should spend and lift the economy out of recession. Can't have it both ways.
As I said, I have little sympathy for the French (spoiled rotten), but at least they are being consistent (2% inflation target) and the employees refuse to let bonus-hungry managers take it all. The rest of the EUSSR is quite different though. German and Dutch truck drivers get undermined by Polish and Romanian 'colleagues,' taxi drivers get undermined by Über, here in Germany big mail order companies like Amazon and Zalando have a detailed history for paying peanuts to employees while at the same time driving smaller shops out of business. Are these 'employees' (usually they're just given a uniform with a company logo on it, but they're actually employed by sub-contractors) going to spend lot's of money and will there be a V-shaped recovery? Hell no!
Again, it's all good and well in a free market society and under free competition competition (*) rules, but at the same time those governments and banks should not wonder if this house of cards comes crashing down when people earn less and less, and can no longer borrow and spend in order to keep up their lifestyle and prevent the economy from imploding.
DEflation, here we come!
(*) p.s. in a Z(N)IRP, QE and NSA controlled world you can no longer really speak 'free' markets and 'free' competition, so in that sense I can understand that a union says "fuck it, we want OUR share of the loot!"
In an looted economy, prices will fall, and wages will rise as productivity increases.
In an economy where government and their Zionist bankster masters steal the productivity gains, and then some, prices will rise, and wages will fall to offset the government and banksters plundering.
The banksters need to repay us.
Is it guillotine a bankster and shoot a pol and crat, or guillotine a pol and crat, shoot a bankster? I get them confused.
Speaking of airlines, American jet fuel consumption dropped markedly in January after a big run up in December:
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_refoth_d_nus_VTR_mgalpd_m.htm
The December runup makes sense seasonally, but I thought that in a healthy economy everyone got out of the cold weather in January by flying south.
no, it was so cold people stayed cooped up at home instead, mostly frozen as popsicles
Sacre bleu!
Bureaucracy; the art of treating people equally shabby
At the same time our drug dealing,money laundering Bank HSBC is under criminal investigation in France.Ah,those pesky Frenchmen could blow the lid off of the CIA's drug network that supports the U.S. Government ,but somehow I doubt it.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/french-magistrates-open-criminal-investigati...
Look out the TSA are goin to start grabbing people at the markets, churches and in swimming pools.
That is because all those free colonoscopies they've been giving to grandma and grandpa at the airport have failed to produce even one butt bomb. They need to expand their search. The real terrorists are out there..they just need to excavate and ever expaning amount of anuses to find the butt fingered culprits.
I wonder if the skies of France have turned back to azure blue? Ryanair is one of the airlines accused of deliberately spraying aerosol particulates to create artificial cirrus clouds.
They must not be bathing again until the end of the month.
Ugly racist joke ...
Pilots land at uncontrolled airports every day. Every pilot goes through this training. They should continue flying at 50%. I'm sure they could keep 10statutemile separation easily (controllers maintain 3sm+ separation)
FRENCH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLERS ON STRIKE AGAINST CUTS IN THEIR DAILY CROISSANT ALLOWANCE
Administration wants to cut the list of perks by 20%, to just 38 pages
Source: www.financialpaparazzi.com
[quote] The most notable outcome, is that the skies over France are rapidly becoming comparable to those over east Ukraine [/quote]
So, BUKs are shooting down airliners?
SU-25s doing strafing runs? My give up! :>D
That would be nice, a day without Chemtrails. :)