Norwegian Air's flight crew union calls for strike at Charles de Gaulle

PARIS / OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian Air's biggest cabin crew union in France has called for a strike on April 24-26 to demand higher wages and better working conditions, a representative said Saturday. union.

Anastasia Durand, UNAC representative, told Reuters that the union represented 70% of the company's 158 cabin employees based at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, also known as Roissy, from which Norwegian flew four or five flights a day.

Durand said that there had been no formal vote for the strike but that the union had questioned the staff and that there was general support for the action. She did not say whether any discussions were planned with the company.

Norwegian, which serves the Charles de Gaulle airport directly, mainly to the United States, including New York and Los Angeles, was not immediately available for comment.

The Oslo-listed airline has upset the long-haul market by offering discounted transatlantic fares, but its rapid expansion has left it with heavy losses and heavy debts.

Earlier this month, one of its subsidiaries had postponed deliveries of Airbus A320neos and A321LR scheduled for this year and next year, reducing its capital expenditures by $ 570 million. It postponed for the second time in two months the deliveries of aircraft.