This flight was purchased through FlyBe, operated by Air France as a code share.
On the afternoon of the 15th Mrs A was checking the news on the BBC website when she saw that AF pilots would be on strike on the 15th: checked the AF website and our flight, BE3008, had been cancelled.
Neither FlyBe or AF had sent an email or text to inform us: phoned FlyBe call centre and the lady I spoke to insisted the flight was extant. I had to ask her to check the AF website to confirm that it was cancelled. When she came back it was "Yes, it's cancelled I can put you on a flight tomorrow"
No good says I can we get back on the last flight? Eventually she found 2 seats on the 3010 so we took those.
At no time did she mention EU261 or what FlyBe would do if had to extend our stay: she couldn't explain why we hadn't been notified of the cancellation either.
When I asked her about EU261, she said she had only been in the job for 3 days and had no concept of what the regulation involved: shabby training by FlyBe.
The flight was on a FlyBe Embraer and it left on schedule: the change of flight we had was free but the 2 ladies sitting in front of us, who had been scheduled to take the same flight as us, were charged £400 to change to the 3010.
We were given a drinks and snack voucher but the bar was running out of stock as the aircraft had been on the go from first thing in the morning.
All in all a very poor experience: last time I fly travel with FlyMaybe and Air Chance.
, I (almost) gave up and wrote to the CAA instead. Guess what? 2 weeks later an email came into my inbox from AF: "we are pleased to confirm that compensation of €600 will be transferred to your account, or an AF voucher 
will be posted to you" 
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