While the strike rate has stagnated since the start of the week at 60%, Air France is forecasting a slight improvement for Friday. In its daily update, the airline "forecasts a slight improvement in traffic, which will enable it to operate more than 45 % of its flights, taking into account a rate of striking pilots of less than 60 % for this day". It now remains to be seen whether the strike will last: Air France has already warned that "If the industrial action continues beyond 19 September, the flight schedule will be adapted accordingly", while stressing that 7,000 employees are working to serve customers, and that almost 1.2 million text messages and messages have been sent since the start of the strike to inform customers travelling between 15 and 22 September individually and in real time.
