Over 30 flights to and from Dublin airport cancelled due to French air traffic controller strike

Sixteen flights to Dublin Airport and 15 flights departing the airport, which were scheduled for today and tomorrow, have been cancelled because of an air traffic controller strike in France, according to the live air traffic website, Flight Radar 24. A spokesperson for the DAA, the operator of Dublin and Cork airports, said: “We advise all passengers to stay in contact with their airline if their flight is due to fly through French air traffic control space in the coming days.” Ryanair called on the president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen to take “urgent action” to protect flights affected by air traffic control strikes in France. Speaking in a video posted on Twitter, CE of Ryanair Michael O’Leary said the airline had to cancel 400 flights on Tuesday. “All of these have been cancelled because of the French ATC strikes. The majority of these flights are overflights and are not going to France,” he said. “It is absolutely indefensible that flights going from Ireland to Italy, Poland to Portugal, or from Spain to Germany, are being cancelled simply because the French want to prioritise their domestic flights and cancel all the overflights.”<br/>