{"id":238725,"date":"2025-07-05T00:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238725\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T00:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T00:13:11","slug":"european-airlines-go-ballistic-over-french-air-traffic-controller-strike-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238725\/","title":{"rendered":"European airlines go ballistic over French air traffic controller strike \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s walkout was called by France&#8217;s second-largest air traffic controllers&#8217; union, <a href=\"https:\/\/icna.fr\/publication\/bn_23juin25_communique_de_presse.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNSA-ICNA<\/a>; it was joined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usac-cgt.org\/actualites-nationales\/une-mobilisation-historique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USAC-CGT<\/a>, the third-largest union. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/economie\/entreprises\/transports\/greve-des-controleurs-aeriens-des-annulations-plus-nombreuses-ce-vendredi-depuis-paris_AV-202507030553.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AFP<\/a>, some 270 controllers out of 1,400 participated in the strike on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The airlines also accused France of failing to protect planes flying over the country during these actions, which cause disruption throughout Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is indefensible that today that I&#8217;m canceling flights from Ireland to Italy, from Germany to Spain, from Portugal to Poland,\u201d O&#8217;Leary said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The budget airline chief blamed the European Union, and specifically European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary said that of Ryanair\u2019s 400 cancellations caused by the strike, \u201c360, or 90 percent of those flights, would operate if the Commission protected the overflights as Spain, Italy and Greece do during air traffic control strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVon der Leyen and the Commission made a big song and dance during Brexit about: &#8216;We must protect the single market, the single market is sacrosanct, nothing would be allowed to disrupt the single market,&#8217;\u201d he said. \u201cUnless you&#8217;re a French air traffic controller and you can shut down the sky over France.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s walkout was called by France&#8217;s second-largest air traffic controllers&#8217; union, UNSA-ICNA; it was joined by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,4328,10697,1306,1194,2000,299,5187,36,1824,1450,678,2199,8175,39253,91613,770,3046,6861,104,1263,92891,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-238725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-anna-kaisa-itkonen","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-budget","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-greece","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-italy","21":"tag-labor","22":"tag-labor-rights","23":"tag-michael-oleary-ryanair-ceo","24":"tag-poland","25":"tag-portugal","26":"tag-single-market","27":"tag-spain","28":"tag-transport","29":"tag-transport-workers","30":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114797740848926047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}