Ryanair urges EU to protect flights from French strikes

Ryanair condemned the continuing cancellation of flights over France due to repeated French ATC strikes. It says French Minimum Service Legislation is used to protect French domestic flights, but EU overflights from Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK, and Ireland are cancelled solely because a “tiny French ATC union repeatedly closes the skies over Europe”. Over this past weekend, over 25% of Ryanair’s 9,000 scheduled flights were delayed due to French ATC disruptions, and 230 flights (41,000 passengers) were cancelled to comply with French ATC...