The Irish low-cost company, the first in Europe in number of passengers transported, said in a statement that it had to cancel “a small number of flights to and from France” on Tuesday because of this interprofessional social movement.
The French General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC), which had asked companies to give up 20% of their flights in Paris-Orly, stressed at half a day that the situation was “in general better” than expected.
“All causes combined (security, ground handling, airports), and taking into account the sequence of rotations and the accumulation of delays since the beginning of the day, the flights are experiencing a very moderate overall delay, less than 30 minutes for the most flights at major airports, however, some specific flights may experience delays of more than an hour,” a DGAC spokeswoman said.
France at the heart of the connections of the low cost company
Ryanair regularly points to French air traffic control (ATC) in its external communication.
The geography means that many Ryanair routes between the British Isles and southern Europe must pass through French airspace.
The company lamented Tuesday that “the European Commission, under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen, (has) repeatedly failed to protect the single European air transport market, by allowing flights over France to be repeatedly hijacked by minority air transport unions.” French air traffic controllers. which close French airspace to EU passengers traveling to/from countries outside of France, while protecting flights by French citizens and French domestic flights.”
According to Ryanair, “hundreds of thousands of airline passengers suffered delays last summer due to ATC strikes in France, a problem that could easily be resolved with the intervention of the European Commission to protect overflights when ‘ATC in some Member States is on strike, as is already happening in Greece and Italy, and to prevent the unnecessary inconvenience suffered by EU passengers last summer from being repeated in the summer of 2023.”
Source: BFM TV
