A French air traffic control strike has forced Ryanair to cancel 300 flights on Thursday, hitting 50,000 passengers.
A pay row between French air traffic controllers’ unions and their employer, DGAC, the civil aviation authority, will disrupt European travel today (Thursday 25th April).
As of Wednesday night, more than 40 flights due to arrive at or depart from Irish airports were cancelled ahead of the planned French strikes.
Those include 38 cancelled flights displaying as cancelled at Dublin Airport, all of which were due to travel to or from French destinations with the exception of Ryanair flights to and from Basel, Switzerland, which is close to the country’s border with France.
A Ryanair spokesperson said the strikes are also expected to cause knock-on delays to non-cancelled flights.
A statement from chief executive Michael O’Leary indicated that services from Ireland to Italy, along with those taking off for southern Europe from Germany and Scandinavia, would also be affected.
