Ryanair downplays work stoppages and warns of ATC strike

Boeing 737-800 (Photo: Jan Gruber).
Boeing 737-800 (Photo: Jan Gruber).

Ryanair downplays work stoppages and warns of ATC strike

Boeing 737-800 (Photo: Jan Gruber).
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Strikes at Ryanair Group flight operations took place in various European countries on Friday. However, the company downright downplays them and even claims that the work stoppages are “hardly supported”.

According to its own statements, Ryanair had to cancel two percent of the planned 3.000 flights on Friday. The lion's share affected Belgium, because 40 percent of connections to/from Charleroi and Brussels-Zaventem had to be cancelled. The company claims that strike action is particularly low in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland and the UK. "The vast majority of Ryanair crews are operating normally," the company said. Over the weekend, "minimal, if any, disruption to flight schedules is expected as a result of these very minor and unsupported work stoppages."

The low-cost airline faces a completely different "house number" in France, because there the air traffic controllers in the center of Marseille will start a two-day labor dispute. This affects all users of the airspace and Ryanair assumes that significant delays and cancellations of flights that pass through French airspace will be the result. According to the company, however, the strikes by its own staff should have absolutely no meaning. Regardless, people whose holiday flights have been canceled give precious little attention to Ryanair's view that strikes are said to be "hardly supported".

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