With another day of general protests against pension reform - the tenth - scheduled for Tuesday 28 March, business travel in France is likely to be disrupted throughout the week. Not least in the skies, where the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has asked airlines to reduce their flight schedules. until the morning of Thursday 30 March. This applies not only to Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence, the two airports which have seen the most flight cancellations recently, but also to Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse.
As a result of this strike affecting air traffic control, on the order of 20% flights are expected to be cancelled on each of these hubs. As delays are expected in addition to these cancellations, the DGAC is urging passengers to postpone their journey and check with their airline to find out the status of their flight.
On the railwithout giving a precise traffic situation, the SNCF specifies that train traffic will be disrupted on the network on Monday 27 March 2023. " It should be heavily disrupted on Tuesday 28" The company is inviting passengers to check on the running of their trains via the usual information channels the day before from 5.00 pm. Regional and Ile-de-France lines will also be affected on 27 and 28 March 2023.
Business travellers must also anticipate disruption to their journeys by public transport. On Monday 27 March, traffic was already disrupted on lines C, D, L and N, in addition to some disruption on line H. The situation is unlikely to improve the 28 Marchparticularly in the metro. The RATP confirmed as early as Sunday: traffic will be disrupted on Tuesday. Lines 1, 3bis, 7bis and 9 should escape the impact of the strike. As will line 14 until 10pm (due to work). Elsewhere, travel will be more complicated. Tomorrow there should be an average of 1 train in 2 or 1 train in 3.
Station closures to be expected
It should also be noted that several metro stations will be temporarily closedin particular Richelieu-Drouot all day on 28 MarchOberkampf, St Ambroise, Voltaire, Charonne, Rue des boulets and Filles du Calvaire from 12pm for security reasons. The Champs Elysées Clémenceau, Invalides, Père Lachaise, Barbès- Rochechouart, Place de Clichy, Villiers, Pigalle, Stalingrad and Jaurès stations will close at 8pm.
With regard to RER A and BRATP plans to operate at 50%, with 1 train in 2 on average, throughout the day. Interconnections will also be maintained at both Nanterre Préfecture and Gare du Nord. L'Orlyval should operate normally. Bus and tram travel should once again avoid disruption on 28 March. Reiterating its apologies to users, RATP is once again inviting them to " give priority to teleworking or postpone their journeys on the network on that day ".
Slight disruption in Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux
In the regions, the major French destinations will be spared disruption overall. Like Lyon where the TCL will be "slightly disrupted" on 28 March. All metro and funicular lines will run normally on Tuesday. A MarseilleBoth metro lines will be operating, as will the tramway. Some frequencies will be slightly reduced. Another example of limited disruption: BordeauxTBM is expecting normal traffic levels on all four tram lines. Operator TBM is therefore expecting "slight disruption", with service interruptions limited to the Corol 31 line and the express section of line 84.
