US EditionRyanair and easyJet cancel hundreds of flights over air traffic control strike
- On July 3, Ryanair cancelled 170 flights as a result of a strike by French air traffic controllers, disrupting travel plans for over 30,000 passengers.
- The strike by two French unions started that day over staffing shortages, management issues, and a clock-in system, disrupting flights across France and Europe.
- Flights to and from France and overflights through French airspace to the UK, Spain, Ireland, and Greece experienced cancellations and delays, with Paris airports reducing schedules by 40%.
- Michael O'Leary criticized the repeated strikes by French air traffic controllers, highlighting how these disruptions unfairly impact European families traveling on holiday and urging urgent reforms at the EU level to prevent such interruptions.
- The strike intensified disruptions to summer holiday travel and prompted Ryanair to urge the European Commission to implement measures guaranteeing a basic level of service throughout national air traffic control strikes.
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Ryanair, the first European airline, announced that it had to cancel 170 flights on Thursday affecting 30 000 passengers.
·Paris, France
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Ryanair reported on Thursday that due to the strike in France, 170 flights had to be cancelled, which would affect the plans of more than 30,000 passengers, as a result of a two-day strike by French air traffic controllers on Thursday in Lithuania, only one flight, the flight of the Latvian airline Air Baltice between Vilnius and Paris scheduled for Friday, had so far been cancelled.
·Vilnius, Lithuania
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