Un effet très positif de la fermeture de MRS comme base FR !
Je ne vois pas trop où est l'effet positif en sachant que le bi-quotidien entre Lille et Marseille était plus intéressant ... . Sauf pour Regional qui fait du Lille-Marseille...
Si Ryanair passe en bi-quotidien su CRL MRS là c'est une autre histoire.
Marseille, we hardly knew ye
CALM has returned to the streets and petrol to the pumps. But for all the turmoil and tear gas that the government’s mild pension reform prompted, it has left intact an underlying social model based on high taxes and onerous rules for firms and employees, plus generous benefits. Two recent controversies expose the wide gap between what the French expect and what foreign businesses will bear.
Last month Ryanair, an Irish low-cost airline, announced that it is to shut its only base in France, in Marseille, in January 2011. Some 200 jobs will be transferred out of France and 13 routes will be closed, including the one to Paris. This is not because of low demand. Since 2006 Ryanair’s passenger traffic to and from Marseille has jumped eightfold, to 1.7m, as French travellers snap up flights at a fraction of the prices charged by Air France. Rather, Ryanair is leaving as a pre-emptive response to a decision by prosecutors to investigate it for breaching French labour law.
Ryanair was employing 200 cabin staff and pilots in Marseille on Irish labour contracts, which are less burdensome than French ones. This is in line with European Union rules on mobile transport workers, the company argues, since the employees were on Irish “territory” (planes), working for a company resident in Ireland, where they were paid. That may have pushed the rules to the limit, but it made business sense. The tax “wedge” (the gap between what an employer pays and the employee receives) is as much as three times bigger in France than in Ireland.
The French were enraged. “A company with cowboy methods, ” fumed La Provence, a local paper. The unions accused the firm of using illegal labour and of social dumping. Ryanair decided to pull out before it got to court. The prosecutors, declared Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s boss, had “cost Marseille and France jobs, foreign investment and lost visitors”.
There was equal indignation over another foreign firm, Molex, an American electronic-parts maker that supplies the car industry. Last year Molex decided to close its French plant near Toulouse, which had been unprofitable for years. It agreed redundancy packages, which have so far cost it €30m ($42m), and helped finance alternative employment. But in September 188 former employees filed a suit against Molex, contesting their redundancy.
Molex promptly suspended further redundancy payments, arguing that it faced too much uncertainty over future costs. By chance, last week the group reported net profits in the three months to the end of September of $75m, after a loss in the same period of 2009. This sent the unions into a fury, and Christian Estrosi, the industry minister, to their defence. He called the firm’s behaviour “scandalous” and ordered French carmakers, including PSA Peugeot Citroën, a private company, to stop doing business with Molex. For its part, Molex denounced the “aggressive” approach of the French government and its “negative attitude to business and foreign investment”.
France is popular with foreign investors thanks to its skilled workforce and excellent infrastructure. But many complain that labour law and heavy payroll taxes deter job creation. Bosses believe some workers try to get fired in order to win generous tax-free redundancy. Small firms buy machinery to avoid taking on staff. Yet most French reporting of these two cases, egged on by Mr Estrosi, has drawn a caricature of wicked bosses twisting the rules to exploit workers. Producer sympathy triumphs over consumer interest. And suspicion of profit precludes sensible discussion of the cost to France in lost jobs.
eh la ! personne ne vole avec tes impots, beaucoup d'autres en paient aussi. tu te prends pour qui ? et puis tu en paie beaucoup ?
Great news for those heading to Bahia / Salvador toward the end of the year.
Air France plans to increase flights from 3 to 5 during the December 2026 / February 2027 period.
Original source: Salvador terá mais voos diretos para Paris durante o verão; veja o que muda | Jornal Correio 1
Tropical greetings from Salvador,
@IvanBahiaGuide
(local specialist, active on the French-speaking Brazil Forums for over 16 years now)
