Strike Day June 6 - day of our Paris arrival :-/

I should think it much too early to worry just yet.

Taxis from CDG are generally not part of the public sector workers striking, and all you really need do is reach your hotel. Work actions are generally concentrated within certain neighborhoods and are really not city wide. You should be fine.

Please scroll through or search this forum to see the other posts from people concerned about the strikes this spring, only to be told by those "on the ground" that everything was fine. As with all travel, you need to be flexible (I mean, flights can be cancelled or delayed for countless reasons), but I don't think you need to be concerned about safety. We're traveling toward the end of June, so I've been keeping an eye on the strikes and this forum, and my recollection was that the Eiffel Tower was closed one day, and Versailles was closed one day (and perhaps the Louvre). So if you have a tightly scheduled trip, where that one day is the day you had to do a particular thing, it may disrupt you--but there are many other things to see. Sometimes a particular Metro station will be closed, so again, you may have to walk or take a taxi--and as the previous poster said, taxis aren't generally affected. I have noted that sometimes trains are cancelled, but not all trains, so you might have to reschedule (not unlike flight issues in the US).

As my husband says, "they're socialists, they strike"--those have been going on for the 30 years since he was a student in Bordeaux, and before. I understand your concern as a first-timer, but please don't let it affect your enjoyment of the trip. I hope you have a wonderful time.

Where’s the best place to find info on upcoming/planned strikes in France?

@Donna - cestlagreve.fr

@OP - you really need to talk to your airline as to whether your flight will be cancelled.

Usually long-haul flights (which includes those coming from the U.S.) arenot affected.

In any event, there is nothing to do for now. Those workers who want to participate in the strike must advise their company of their intention 48 hours prior to the strike - that is, not until June 4. Same is true for air traffic control unions.

After the companies know how many of their employees (if any) will participate,and the air traffic controllers know the same, the French civil aviation authority calculates what the airports can handle and usually instructs the airlines to cancel a certain percentage of flights per airport. Then the companies work out which ones to cancel. As I said, normally, they do NOT cut Trans-atlantic flights (although obviously it is a possibility).

So if you were to contact your airline now, or anytime before June 4, they won't have anything to tell you, because they won't have any idea yet how widely the strike will be subscribed among its workers.

On top of that, it's possible that no one in the airline sector will join in the strike at all.

Thank you skunklet1771!

I did a search on this site (see the top of this page to do the same) planning to compile some of the recent posts and responses on strikes in France. Searching just the word "strikes," I found, in the last 6 months of the forum, posts on strikes in England, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Germany in addition to France--and that was just the first page! Obviously we pay attention to the ones that may affect our own travels, but it's not uncommon and there are still loads of travelers to Europe.

Thanks to all for the reassurance. We will use common sense and be vigilant about our own safety, and stay on top of any changes in arrangements. I appreciate the responses.

Not to worry everyone! I just contacted ALL the airlines to check who had flight and If any of the airlines had any early info. I called American Airlines, AF, Delta, United and Lufthansa. Flights are still on schedule for all of these, but just in case they cancel those flights, everyone of these airlines has multiple available flights on 7th of June. If you’re flying with any of these airlines, they will change your ticket for free after notifying you if your flight is canceled (which probably will not happen!). My wife and I were worried for a while, but after talking to these multiple airlines all morning, it turns out that they all really want to keep us happy and promised to “get us there”. Whew 😉