Ryanair has canceled more than 300 flights due to the air traffic control strike called for this Thursday in France, since the country does not protect overflights when national strikes are called. Now, the Irish airline explains that the majority of canceled flights do not have origin or destination in the French country.
The affected operations are those that They fly over French airspace to other destinations, how can they be United Kingdom either Spain. This is because French law protects domestic flights, but not overflights.
Therefore, the company asks the European Union to take urgent measures to protect these overflights. A request shared by the Association of Airlines (ALA), which estimates that 50% of the flights operated this Thursday in Spain will have delays for this strike, of which 85% will have neither origin nor destination in France.
ALA recalls that Spain is, after France, the country most affected by the strikes of French air traffic controllers, which is why the strike planned in all control centers in France will have a “very negative impact on thousands of flights.”
The president of ALA, Javier Gándara, has stressed in a press release the need for the EU to “take a step forward” and force France to, as is happening in Italy or Spain, protect overflights with minimal services in French airspace.
