{"id":4153,"date":"2018-04-07T05:24:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=d1351b0879e9645aec5c5fdc51bb21ca"},"modified":"2018-04-07T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T09:24:06","slug":"air-france-strike-gathers-steam-third-of-flights-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/07\/air-france-strike-gathers-steam-third-of-flights-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Air France strike gathers steam; third of flights cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8212; Some 30 per cent of Air France flights have been cancelled as strikes over pay rises appear to be intensifying.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s one-day walkout is affecting international and domestic travel, notably a quarter of flights at Paris&#8217; Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. Air France is urging passengers to check the status of their flights and offering to change tickets for free.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fifth Air France strike since February, and the number of cancelled flights is rising. Unions this week announced more strikes this month to coincide with national rail walkouts.<\/p>\n<p>Air France unions want 6 per cent pay raises after years of salary freezes. Air France is offering 1 per cent raises, saying anything higher will hurt its turnaround efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes cost Air France millions of euros a day..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &mdash; Some 30 per cent of Air France flights have been cancelled as strikes over pay rises appear to be intensifying. Saturday&rsquo;s one-day walkout is affecting international and domestic travel, notably a quarter of flights at Paris&rsquo; Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports. Air France is urging passengers to check the status of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}