Some 6.5 million Ryanair passengers have suffered delays since the beginning of the year due to attacks and “poor management” in the control of French air traffic, the first airline in Europe denounced on Friday.
“More than 36,000 Ryanair flights and more than 6 million passengers have undergone delays between January 1 and July 22, 2025 due to the poor management of the French air traffic control service, the lack of recreational personnel and strikes,” wrote the Irish company Ryanair in a statement.
The airline requires that French transport minister Philippe Tabarot take “urgent” measures to reform this service by estimating that “90% of these delays could have been avoided.”
Recommend protecting over -uels during national strikes and force aerial controllers to guarantee full workforce for the first wave outings every day.
Much more in France than with our neighbors
According to Ryanair, France is the country in Europe, where air traffic control causes the greatest amount of delays for its passengers. By way of comparison, 3.8 million passengers have undergone delays attributed to air controllers in Spain, 1.8 in Germany, 700,000 in the United Kingdom and 600,000 in Portugal, according to statistics mentioned by the company.
The last, the strike launched by two minority unions of French skylights on July 3 and 4, demanding an improvement in working conditions and a larger workforce, affected more than one million passengers and cost around 120 million euros to European companies, according to the Eurocontrol traffic monitoring organization.
The British airline Easyjet also denounced “the important costs” linked to this social movement when it was published in its results of the third quarter on July 17.
Source: BFM TV
