Ryanair is expecting over 100,000 passengers to have their flights either delayed or cancelled with French air strikes this week.
Flights heading across Europe are being impacted by the strike action, even journeys that aren't heading to or from France, but simply passing over.
The airline has called on the UK, Irish, Italian and Spanish Governments to take action to protect their citizens and overflights to and from their countries which would prevent thousands of people's flights being cancelled.
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Ryanair CEO, Michael O’Leary said: “We’re fed up with these repeated flight disruptions and cancellations caused by tiny French ATC unions, and the French Govt policy of using minimum services to protect French flights for French citizens while disrupting thousands of flights overflying France for thousands of EU citizens who are not travelling to/from France.
"The EU Commission under Ursula von der Leyen continues to stand idly by while Europe’s single market for air travel is wrecked again and again by these tiny French ATC unions, and if the EU Commission won’t act to protect its citizens, then national Govt must intervene."
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