Irish Ryanair passengers have been warned of possible disruptions to their flights due to a worker strike taking place among air traffic controllers in France.
French Air Traffic Control (ATC) will strike again this coming Thursday for the fifth time this year, following on from their last strike on Tuesday.
Ryanair is once again calling on the EU Commission under President Ursula von der Leyen to step up and take immediate action by protecting overflights which will prevent thousands of European passengers from being disrupted during unnecessary French ATC strikes.
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Ryanair Director of Operations, Neal McMahon said: "Even passengers who are not flying to/from France are impacted because they overfly French airspace, all the while French laws unfairly protect French domestic flights."
Some Irish passengers have been warned that their flights may be affected as a result.
Mr McMahon said that Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission are "abandoning" hundreds of thousands of passengers flying over French skies by "repeatedly failing to protect the free movement of people."
He stressed that senior EU figures must protect French domestic flights for French citizens.
He has called for President Von der Leyen to step up and put a stop to what he described as "needless strikes."
"If the President of the EU Commission cannot protect European passengers and keep European skies open during these repeated French ATC strikes, then she should step down and make room for someone that will protect European citizens," Mr McMahon stated.
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