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Ryanair cancels 300 flights due to French air traffic control strike
The 'low cost' airline Ryanair cancelled 300 flights due to the strike by French air traffic controllers, and the decision is expected to affect connections to Portugal, it said in a statement released today.
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Thus, the group "announced the cancellation of more than 300 flights, due to the strike of French air traffic controllers" which takes place this Thursday.
"This situation is due to the fact that France has not protected" flights that pass through its airspace "during its national air strikes", he said.
According to Ryanair, despite the strike being by French air traffic controllers, "the majority of affected passengers do not fly from/to France, but overfly French airspace on their way to their destination (for example, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Italy)", ensuring that "French legislation unfairly protects domestic flights".
"Ryanair once again calls on the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to take urgent action to protect" these flights, "which she has not done in the last five years".
Quoted in the same note, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said that "French air traffic controllers are free to strike, it is a right that they have, but French flights should be canceled and not flights that leave Ireland and go to Italy, or flights from Germany to Spain or from Scandinavia to Portugal".
"The European Commission, under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen, has not taken any action to protect overflights and the single air transport market for five years", he criticized, calling for measures to resolve the issue, "which will eliminate more than 90% of these flight cancellations".
The company calls for the protection of flights that pass through French airspace during strikes and that air traffic controllers from other European countries can manage these connections. It also calls for mandatory arbitration before strikes in France.
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