In France, fear grips travelers. Will they be able to travel however they want this summer? Airlines are currently facing enormous difficulties. In addition to the difficulty of reforming the teams they had reduced at the height of the health crisis linked to Covid-19, they face social discontent. “It’s simple, some companies laid off when everything was at a standstill, now that it’s starting up again, it takes people to make money, you have to sell seats at all costs, so we’re asking employees to do the same at a lower cost to do without raises or reevaluations. Inevitably, the situation is tense and everyone is wondering how to spend the summer,” summarizes Thierry Oriol, Air France pilot and board member of the National Union of Airline Pilots (SNPL) with La Dépêche du Midi.
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This situation has forced some airlines like EasyJet, Ryanair and Volotea to cancel many flights this summer, especially to Morocco. “Airlines are currently experiencing operational difficulties across the industry, which means we’ve had to make a number of precautionary cancellations,” Easyjet’s management said, without giving the exact number. Volotea has already canceled 360 flights in Italy. If nothing is done to defuse social unrest, companies will continue to cancel flights.