Over 1,000 passengers hoping to travel between the Republic and France were affected yesterday by the French air-traffic controllers' strike, but schedules are expected to return to normal today, reports Christine Newman.
Yesterday flights to and from France were cancelled, and most passengers were either rerouted or had their journeys deferred to another day on Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Air France.
The French air-traffic controllers were on 24-hour strike until 5 a.m. today. They fear privatisation of their jobs.
Aer Lingus said it expected flights to France to be back to normal today.
The airline will be laying on an extra flight on the Dublin-Paris route at 5 p.m.
The usual first flight which departs from Paris at 7.05 to Dublin this morning has been cancelled as the airline was not able to fly out the aircraft last night to the French capital.
A Ryanair representative said they were hoping that flights would be back to normal today. Yesterday the four return Dublin-Paris flights were cancelled as well as the Ryanair flights from British airports to venues all over France. Other flights were rerouted through German, Austrian and Swiss airspace.