“Let’s stop the scandal of people, families having their holidays destroyed because overflights are being unnecessarily cancelled.”
He explained: “Again today we’ve had to cancel just about 400 flights out of the 3,200 flights we had scheduled to operate today. All of these flights have been cancelled because of the latest French ATC strike."The vast majority of these flights are overflights, they’re not going to France. They’re flights from Britain to Spain, from Portugal to Germany, from Italy to Ireland.
"They have alternatives. The French can take the TGV. They can take the motorways. But people flying across France are having their flights unnecessarily cancelled because the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen will not take action," he stated. "Spain, Italy, Greece already protect these overflights so that when their national ATC unions go on strike, the overflights are not disrupted."He later added: “Europe is a single market. In a single market, the overflights and the skies over Europe must be protected.
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