RYANAIR has warned of “excessive flight delays” today due to European ATC staff shortages. Over a fifth of the airline's first wave departures - 119 of 574 aircrafts - were delayed this morning. Some of the departing flights delayed in Dublin Airport currently include Leeds, Newcastle, London , Liverpool, Brussels, Milan, Malaga, Birmingham, Barl, Split and Bucharest.
Ryanair flights arriving into the capital which are delayed include Faro, Paris , Palma, Kosice, London, Barcelona, Lodz, Nice, Berlin, Ibiza, Milan, Alghero, Lublin, Riga, Amsterdam, Liverpool, Gran Canaries, Frankfurt, Tenerife, Bratislava, Brussels and Newcastle. Other airlines with delayed flights today also include Aer Lingus, Qatar Airways, Icelandair, Turkish Airlines, Dan Air and American Airlines. Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary has blasted underperforming ATC services.
He urged repeated flight delays due to ATC mismanagement are “unacceptable”. Industrial action in France frequently impacts travel in Europe, limiting not only flights into France but also across the country's airspace. A Ryanair spokesperson said: “Ryanair, Europe’s No.
1 airline, on Thur 11 Jul apologised to its passengers for the excessive flight delays caused by European ATC staff shortages today Thur 11 Jul which are affecting all European airlines. “ATC services, which have had the benefit of no French ATC strike disruption this summer, continue to underperform (despite flight volumes being five per cent behind 2019 leve.
