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French media report that operations at FedEx’s European air hub at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport have been hit by strike action over the last few days over a pay dispute, resulting in flight cancellations and a backlog of parcels and freight shipments.



Several hundred of the company’s 2,200 employees stopped work after annual pay talks broke down, French media reported. The unions involved have been asking for a 5% pay rise and various additional allowances.



Six flights had to be cancelled the first night of the strike and numerous other flights were delayed. Some 40,000 parcels remained unsorted at the airport the first day say the unions and after the second day that increased to a backlog of 80,000 parcels.



It has been reported that the unions voted and then to await further talks on May 24 before deciding on further action.



FedEx Express opened its Paris hub in 1999, it is the second-largest after the Memphis super-hub. The facility, with 72,000 sqm of sorting space, has capacity to sort 61,500 documents and packages per hour, and has parking space for 22 wide-body freighters and 13 feeder planes.



It is served by about 300 weekly flights, including intercontinental flights to/from Asia and the USA, and intra-European flights through the Euro One regional network.