Ryanair cancels hundreds of flights across Europe due to air traffic control strikes in France
Boss Michael O'Leary said: “Again today, we've had to cancel 400 flights, all of these have been cancelled because of the French ATC strikes.
“The vast majority of these flights are overflights. They are not going to France. They are flying from Britain to Spain, from Portugal to Germany, from Italy to Ireland.”He said in a statement: “I’m speaking to you this morning Tuesday from our Dublin operation centre with the bad news that again today we have had to cancel just about 400 flights of the 3200 flights we had scheduled to operate today.
UK holidaymakers and travellers have been warned of fresh disruption following ongoing strike action by staff at French air traffic control.France’s civil aviation authority has advised airlines to cancel up to 30 percent of flights on strike days at some airports, with the walkouts likely affecting Paris’ Orly, Charles de Gaulle and Beauvais airports as well as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes and Nice.
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