Corsica: Air Corsica pilots strike from 9 to 16 October 2026 (SNPL and SPAC)

The pilots' unions SNPL and SPAC have filed a strike notice at Air Corsica for Friday 9 to Friday 16 October 2026, after pay talks with management broke down.

What to expect: cancellations and delays on Air Corsica's flights between Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari and Marseille and Nice — the public-service routes it operates — and on its Paris-Orly services run with Air France. The airline is already short of aircraft: five of its seven ATR 72-600s have been grounded since September while investigators look into repeated reports of unusual smells in the cockpit, so it has little spare capacity to absorb a strike. French law requires striking pilots to declare their participation 48 hours ahead, so Air Corsica will tell passengers about cancellations about two days before each flight. Check your booking and consider ferries or other airlines' connections via the mainland.

Why: the unions say management's offer would block pay progression linked to seniority after two years of wage freezes and fewer days off; they proposed a four-year deal with delayed increases to give the airline time to resolve its fleet problems, which management rejected.