Strike action continues to paralyse France as millions of workers struggle to use the limited public transport that is still running.
Perhaps uniquely to France, the strike encompasses a myriad of disciplines from air traffic controllers, bus and train drivers, to postmen and teachers.
Paris is particularly crippled with the transport system in chaos for the second week running, but air passengers appear to coping better ” if they can reach the airport that is.
”We have an estimate of a 1h delay at Orly [Paris] airport and 45min for Charles de Gaulle,” a Direction Generale de l”Aviation Civile spokeswoman told ABTN from Paris.
Reports are that passengers are being delayed 45min at Marseille airport, while other airports seem relatively calm.
Unlike the rest of France however. The country ” enduring an almost traditional wave of autumn public sector walkouts ” appears to be polarised between those militant trade unionists keen to impress on newly-elected French president their view of his reforms and hard-pressed commuters, who simply want to get to work.
The current strike is due to last 24h.