Ryanair has cancelled eight flights out of Dublin on Thursday because of a planned strike by air traffic controllers in France.
The dispute has been sparked by a row over plans to reduce pay rates for new staff.
The stoppage will start on Wednesday evening and continue into the early hours of Friday morning. The carrier has shelved departures to and from Dublin Airport scheduled for Thursday.
We regret that due to yet another French ATC strike, we’ve been forced to cancel a number of flights https://t.co/9Iyo3IkOjr
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) March 30, 2016
The following departures are cancelled to/from Dublin Airport:
- FR1984 – Dublin to Carcassonne;
- FR1982 –Dublin to Biarritz;
- FR1985 – Carcassonne to Dublin;
- FR1983 – Biarritz to Dublin;
- FR3978 – Dublin to Madrid;
- FR1986 – Dublin to Nantes;
- FR1987 – Nantes to Dublin;
- FR3979 – Madrid to Dublin.
No Ryanair flights out of Cork or Shannon are affected as of yet.
Aer Lingus has not announced any changes to its Thursday schedule.
Ryanair has apologised for the inconvenience to affected customers and passengers are being advised to check the status of their flights before coming to the airport.
A full list of cancelled Ryanair flights can be found here.
Airlines for Europe (A4E) – a European airline association which includes Air France KLM, easyJet, Finnair, International Airlines Group (IAG), Lufthansa Group, Norwegian and Ryanair – said this will be the 43rd strike by French air traffic controllers since 2009.
A4E said the last two-day strike resulted in more than 1,000 flight cancellations with in excess of one million passengers affected.
A4E managing director Thomas Reynaert said: “Repeated and disproportionate industrial action by French ATC unions is seriously impacting the travel plans of thousands of passengers . . . We call on the European Commission to act immediately to defend consumers.
