A report by the Court of Auditors released end of June 2026 criticizes the Direction générale de l’aviation civile for its management of air traffic controllers.
The report highlights salary mass inflation, insufficient working hours and an unsuitable status. The DGAC employs 10 320 staff, including 3 800 air navigation control engineers.
The Court of Auditors also points to the inability to anticipate recruitments and improve operational performance. This document echoes a prior Senate report from end of June that described French air traffic control as the least performant in Europe.
Senators had recalled that 6.6 million minutes of delays in 2025 had caused an 800 million euro loss for airlines.
