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HUNDREDS OF PASSENGERS are facing travel chaos due to French air traffic control (ATC) strikes today.
The strike action has forced Ryanair to cancel 22 flights today and 72 flights on Thursday.
Ryanair passengers can find a list of the cancelled flights for today, here and for Thursday, here.
Aer Lingus flights have also been affected today.
The cancelled Aer Lingus flights are as follows:
The airline has apologised to customers but said the disruption “is due to circumstances beyond our control”.
Condemnation
Ryanair has condemned the two-day strike action, and called on the European Commission to take action to prevent “the skies over Europe being closed once more” due to French ATC unions.
In a statement the airline said:
Ryanair and other EU airlines have repeatedly called upon the Commission to introduce simple measures, which would alleviate the impact of these frequent ATC strikes on Europe’s citizens.
It said ATC unions should be required to engage in binding arbitration instead of strikes.
Ryanair also wants Europe’s other ATCs to operate while union strikes are ongoing and said airlines should be allowed to recover their expenses from striking ATC providers.
Passengers impacted are entitled to a full refund or they can rebook on the next available flight.
Ryanair’s Robin Kiely said it’s ”reprehensible that Europe’s consumers repeatedly have their holiday and travel plans disrupted or cancelled by the selfish actions of ATC unions, who use strikes as a first weapon rather than a last resort”.
He said the strike will impact hundreds of thousands of European consumers and throw their travel plans into chaos once more.
It’s high time that the European Commission takes action to prevent these repeated ATC strikes from continuously disrupting the travel plans of millions of Europe’s citizens and their families.
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Hope she is found okay!!!
Best laugh I’ve had all day
Her body was found and then eaten by one of the local tribes
She’s prob just shopping
Or eaten by them fierce creatures
mere cats ….like in life if pie
That’s a bit racist. All islanders are or we’re not cannibals.
They cannot find jumbo jet that disappeared in 2014, yet they hope to find 1 or 2 person propeller plane from 70 years ago, yeah I think that may work.
Not a jumbo jet and by lack of oxygen or intentionally it was crashed in middle of ocean. One thinks that if she was experiencing problems with her aircraft she might go for any land in sight.
So maybe she did crash there. Maybe not. Be cool to solve but won’t hold my breath
Didn’t they find some pieces of her plane and some skeletons on the island there, somewhen in the fifties, thought I read something about that, but can’t remember where
Women drivers crash into anything and still manage to get lost
‘Hunting the mysterious disappearance of……’ What did the English language ever do to The Journal to be abused in this way? One might say ‘Hunting for…’ someone or something or ‘Investigating the disappearance of…….’ someone or something, but ‘Hunting the disappearance of…’ is just bad grammar.
Wow. She’s gonna be really really old if they do find her.
So basically they watched ‘lost’ and got this idea!
Aiiggghhhhtttttttt…..
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