Just a head's up guys if going away next few days. I'm on holiday in Crete and just notified by easyJet text that the bloody French are on an sir traffic control strike on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July and to expect delays and disruption throughout Europe. Expect knock on effects on Saturday and Sunday.
Always the bloody French

The topic reminded me of this all-time great after dinner speech: https://youtu.be/7KbUNzi58wM?si=k74dYEHZsWMoXBSM

That's the bloody problem for us Brits, any sort of short/ medium length flight from Britain to Europe usually crosses French ATC.at some point so they really do hold all the cards as it causes multi National disruption..

What? The French are on strike?

Andreshotboots wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:38 pm

That's the bloody problem for us Brits, any sort of short/ medium length flight from Britain to Europe usually crosses French ATC.at some point so they really do hold all the cards as it causes multi National disruption..

Solution: "Go west!" Simples

Oshkoshclaret wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:29 pm

The topic reminded me of this all-time great after dinner speech: https://youtu.be/7KbUNzi58wM?si=k74dYEHZsWMoXBSM

You wont have wasted any of your time listening to this although given it is from the 1980's it is a bit dated; it was, and I hope still is, hilarious.
The French bit is very good. As are PANAM's profits!!!!!
Many years since I heard it. Have it on tape but cant play it

Andreshotboots wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:38 pm

That's the bloody problem for us Brits, any sort of short/ medium length flight from Britain to Europe usually crosses French ATC.at some point so they really do hold all the cards as it causes multi National disruption..

Yes...bloody French. Every time I fly over France, I always go to the loo and pee down on them.
Just makes me feel good...nobody likes the frogs !

A few years ago we were supposed to be heading to Lyon (to join a Rhone river cruise) by train (Eurostar to Paris then TGV to Lyon) french Railstrikes hit our arranged travel plans and we finished being flown out to from Heathrow to Geneva and returned Nice to Heathrow.

The French love a strike

It Is What It Is wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 3:31 pm

Yes...bloody French. Every time I fly over France, I always go to the loo and pee down on them.
Just makes me feel good...nobody likes the frogs !

Esteve will be delighted if he reads this, i'm sure

Is it that time of year already ?

It Is What It Is wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:03 pm

Just a head's up guys if going away next few days. I'm on holiday in Crete and just notified by easyJet text that the bloody French are on an sir traffic control strike on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July and to expect delays and disruption throughout Europe. Expect knock on effects on Saturday and Sunday.
Always the bloody French

Your name and post sit rather oddly together.

CaptJohn wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:52 pm

Solution: "Go west!" Simples

That's a bloody long way to go round to get to my place on Majorca

Got to hand it to em, they don't mess about.

I think its easier to assume the French ATC are always on strike unless told otherwise.

You gotta admire the French for the shear audacity to stike at almost any given time in any organisation.

I love the story of the French riot police who, during a strike they were residing over, we caught drinking wine and beer on their lunch break. Albeit this looked terrible from a PR standpoint, they argued it in line with labour laws of their contract. The French police federation then threatened to go on strike if the alcohol allowance was removed from their contract Mad bunch of lads

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/ ... acohol-ban

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 4:26 pm

A few years ago we were supposed to be heading to Lyon (to join a Rhone river cruise) by train (Eurostar to Paris then TGV to Lyon) french Railstrikes hit our arranged travel plans and we finished being flown out to from Heathrow to Geneva and returned Nice to Heathrow.

The French love a strike

To be fair bud they don’t allow their government to bully them. Unfortunately in this country the ‘workers’ lost all their fight after Thatcher broke the unions. Strikes are a pain in the backside but sometimes they are necessary in order to get some fairness. People said the unions got too powerful and needed reigning in but too often it is forgotten that without them we’d all still be working for 2 bob a month and getting sacked for being 2 minutes late. If employers were all decent and paid good living wages unions would not be necessary but many are not. Unions came into being because employers treated people like disposable commodities. Maybe they did get a bit too powerful but without them we’d have a much poorer society.

No problem at moment
My daughter and granddaughter flew from East Midlands in the early hours and are now having a beer in sunny Portugal

Would not have needed to fly over French airspace i would think ?

Michael O’Leary , Ryanair, having a go at the EU for not stopping this nonsense every year. His valid argument is that the EU citizens are suffering for a French internal strike. He wants flyovers to be allowed fly.
Of course he's also thinking of his enormous annual bonus.

Great job by the french, sticking up for themselves.

Some saps in the Yookay are even working more than 35 hours a week. It's inhumane.

We flew into Luton this morning from Faro.
Despite the warnings we arrived about 40 minutes late. So, on the whole not too problematic.