Cork flight impacted by strikes in France 

One flight from Cork Airport has been cancelled as a result of French air traffic control strikes, which are due to get underway at 7pm today. 

Ryanair has warned that hundreds of flights are expected to be cancelled across Europe from this evening through to Wednesday morning as a result of the strike action. 

In fact, Ryanair’s Cork to Carcassonne flight, due to depart on Tuesday, has already been cancelled as Tuesday is the main day of strike action. 

In a statement to The Echo, Cork Airport said there is just one Ryanair flight affected tomorrow to Carcassone and that is due to French Air Traffic Control.

In recent days, Ryanair had called on the European Commission to protect overflights and EU citizens’ freedom of movement during the French strike action. 

Michael O'Leary, chief executive of the airline, was in Brussels last week calling on the European Commission to act over the impact of air traffic control (ATC) strikes in France, which continue to affect Irish passengers.

He delivered almost 1.2m petition signatures from Ryanair passengers across Europe to the commission.

The Ryanair petition calls on the EU Commission to “take immediate action and protect European citizens’ freedom of movement and overflights during French ATC strikes”.