“Congratulations to France!” With a good dose of irony, Ryanair presented this European classification of countries that accuse the most delays in the air on Thursday. A classification called “Delays League” by the company and that crowns France, ahead of Spain and Germany. All accompanied, in Ryanair’s Instagram account, by a photo generated by the AI of three sad men representing the three “winners.”
Ryanair says that 26,008 of his flights were late in France in 2025 and that 4.7 million passengers were assigned. The company also has 16,667 delays in Spain (three million passengers assigned) and 7,526 in Germany (1.3 million passengers).
Through its classification, Ryanair mainly indicates the management of air traffic control in Europe, which has been criticizing for many years. The company also claims a reform of the sector over the level of the European Union.
European families “taken as hostages” by the strike of French drivers
The publication of this classification occurs while French air controllers are on strike. Due to this movement, Ryanair announced that he had to cancel 170 flights this Thursday, deplorating that travelers are taken “hostages.” The “low cost” Irish also reiterated its appeal before the European Commission for “acting urgently to reform EU air traffic control services” to prevent national strikes from causing cascade effects on all European traffic.
“In addition to the flights to destination or from France, this strike will also affect all the outstrotations of French airspace. This is due to the persistent inability of France to protect the flycards during the national strikes of air traffic control services,” Ryanair said in a statement.
“Although only French air controllers are on strike, most of the assigned passengers do not even travel to or from France, but simply fly over the French airspace on their way to their destination (for example: United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Ireland, etc.),” the bearer demonstrated.
“Once again, European families are rehénes for the attacks of French air controllers,” said Ryanair’s chief, Michael O’Leary, cited in the text. The strike, scheduled for Thursday and Friday, forced the company “to cancel 170 flights, disturbing more than 30,000 passengers”, depending on the company.
Source: BFM TV
