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For anyone planning to fly to or from France in 2024, we've got a bit of inconvenient news-thousands of flights from four French airports are getting cancelled. It's all because much of- the air traffic control system hasn't been updated since the 1970s.
The air traffic control systems in Paris' main airports are well overdue for an upgrade. Though the systems have received plenty of minor updates over the years, 2024 is the time for a huge improvement- it's thought that around 80 percent of the system will need to be modernized.
Currently, workers still use an air traffic control process which was developed in the 1970s, including using paper strips to represent incoming planes. Thankfully, €1 billion is being invested into improving France's air traffic control.
But that means there'll be a large number of cancellations. According to BFM, it's estimated that around 16, 500 flights to or from Paris' Charles de Gaulle, Orly, Le Bourget and Beauvais airports won't go ahead. The number of passengers that passed through Paris Airports in 2022 was almost 44 million. Paris' Charles de Gaulle saw 26. 1 million passengers, and Paris Orly saw 15. 7 million passengers. For the coming improvement, airlines that operate at these airports have been told to reduce their flight programme by 20 percent between March 9 and April 14. It's during this period that the new system will be tested at Athis-Mons, France's largest air traffic control centre.
Will your flight to France be impacted? Well, it's up to each airline which flights won't run, but it's thought that long-distance routes will take priority. Air France has already cancelled some of theirs, notified passengers, and offered them same-day alternatives.
While this could mean that travelling through Paris is a faff （忙乱） in 2024, it's estimated that 2.5 million flights pass through French airspace annually. With that much air traffic to control, it'd be good to have it all processed by something a bit more reliable than some pieces of paper.
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