The available facts do not establish a link between Aeroports de Paris, the operator of Charles de Gaulle airport, and services for an airline subject to international sanctions. Charles de Gaulle is also a main hub for Air France-KLM.
What the material does show is disruption tied to a civil servants’ strike. France’s civil aviation authority, the Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC), ordered airlines to cancel 5% of flights at Paris Charles de Gaulle between 07:00 am and 8:00 pm on Tuesday.
At Marseille-Provence, airlines were ordered to cancel 25% of flights from 4:00 pm until midnight on Tuesday. Public-sector unions held demonstrations across the country over a proposed pay freeze for civil servants.
The DGAC told passengers to check their flight status with airlines before setting out. It said disruption could also reach the regional airports at Nantes, Strasbourg, Limoges, Tarbes-Lourdes and Pau, while traffic at other French airports remained normal during the strike action.
The aviation system has several layers of authority. The Ministry of Transport regulates aviation in France and can issue aviation rules and measures. The DGAC advises the ministry and takes administrative decisions across aviation matters. The European Aviation Safety Agency has authority over aviation-safety regulation in EU Member States.
EU law increasingly governs French aviation, including Regulation (EC) 261/2004, Regulation (EC) 1107/2006 and Regulation (EC) 1008/2008. Under decree n°2023-1008, dated 31 October 2023, most regulatory provisions still held in the French Code of Civil Aviation were repealed and incorporated into the Code of Transport.
France is party to the 1999 Montreal Convention, which sets the liability regime for air carriers in the event of an accident. European Regulation (EC) 889/2002 applied that liability regime to domestic accidents. Rules for an air carrier seeking an operating licence in France are set out in article 4 of Regulation (EC) 1008/2008 of 24 September 2008.
None of these facts identifies a sanctioned airline, describes services provided by Aeroports de Paris to such an airline, or supplies evidence for the proposed sanctions link.
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