cheap flight disruptions - air traffic controllers go on strike

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Airlines are scrambling on French air traffic controllers' strike - which is causing delays to Aer Lingus cheap-flight-4u and grounding over 196 Ryanair flights across Europe.

Aer Lingus has said it is experiencing lengthy delays on  cheap flights to France, Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. These make up about 20 of its cheap flights. Passengers to these destinations can expect delays of up to three hours today, a spokeswoman said.  Ryanair has said the disruptions caused by the French air traffic controllers strike are causing "severe disruptions" for its customers. "air traffic controllers delays of up to six hours are now being allocated to Ryanair cheap flights operating from France, and also cheap-flight-4u flying over France."

"We expect that these delays will continue to build through the afternoon as the backlog of delayed cheap flights rises. In order to minimize disruptions on the rest of our network Ryanair has been forced regrettably to cancel a total of 196 cheap flights which is approximately 10% of Ryanair’s total schedule of over 1,600 cheap flights today."

The airline added:"We expect the disruption to flights from France and Spain will continue this afternoon as all airlines schedules are heavily disrupted by this unnecessary and regrettable French air traffic controllers strike."

The airline's statement added: "Ryanair apologises sincerely for any delays or inconvenience caused to our customers by this French air traffic controllers strike."  The six-day strike action, called by French airline trade unions, has been timed ahead of a June 30 deadline for France to present its aviation budget plans to European officials.  The tighter budgets are part of a European Commission plan, called Single Sky Europe, to cut air navigation costs. A similar walkout in 2013 led to some 1,800 cheap flights being cancelled a day across Europe.

Ryanair urged the French government and the EU to intervene to prevent further cancellations and delays in cheap flights.



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