Ryanair cancels 400 flights amid air traffic controller strike

Ryanair cancels 400 flights throughout Europe amid air traffic controller strike

Ryanair has cancelled 400 flights throughout Europe today as air traffic control workers go on strike.

Staff walkouts in France have forced hundreds of flights to be grounded, the budget airline said. 

In a tweet, airline 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 majority of these flights are overflights and are not going to France.’

The carrier said the flights instead were supposed to go to the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain rather than to France – where the strikes are taking place. 

Air traffic controllers are needed to make contact with planes flying through the French airspace, according to The Sun.

The airline also tweeted that while it respects the rights of French air traffic controllers to strike, it should be domestic flights in France cancelled ‘not EU overflights’.

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