This week’s walkout was referred to as by France’s second-largest air visitors controllers’ union, UNSA-ICNA; it was joined by the USAC-CGT, the third-largest union. In keeping with AFP, some 270 controllers out of 1,400 participated within the strike on Thursday.
The airways additionally accused France of failing to guard planes flying over the nation throughout these actions, which trigger disruption all through Europe.
“It’s indefensible that at present that I am canceling flights from Eire to Italy, from Germany to Spain, from Portugal to Poland,” O’Leary stated.
The funds airline chief blamed the European Union, and particularly European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, for the state of affairs.
O’Leary stated that of Ryanair’s 400 cancellations brought on by the strike, “360, or 90 p.c of these flights, would function if the Fee protected the overflights as Spain, Italy and Greece do throughout air visitors management strikes.”
“Von der Leyen and the Fee made a giant tune and dance throughout Brexit about: ‘We should shield the one market, the one market is sacrosanct, nothing could be allowed to disrupt the one market,’” he stated. “Except you are a French air visitors controller and you may shut down the sky over France.”
