Air France streiken i september visualisert

 

The Air France Strike Impact Visualised

Nov 28, 2014by Rupa Haria in Things With Wings

A picture speaks a thousand words

 

The two-week strike by Air France-KLM pilots in September cost the airline some €500 million, disrupted travel plans of thousands of passengers (including mine) and destroyed public confidence in the airline. As our editor in France recently commented, "Air France is in for the fight of its life." 

And now, we can present a visual impact of the strikes. Dr. Simon Proud, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, sent me these visualisations on Twitter showing French airspace during and after the strike. 

The images are based on data from the planefinder.net ADS-B receivers, which the department stores in its database and uses to plot flightpaths for incident analysis using its own software.

“We received data from Air France flights 96,331 times in early October but only 49,026 times in the same length of time in September,” said Simon.