Flights to and from Spain cancelled due to strike by French air traffic controllers

Ryanair and easyJet planes

Ryanair-and-easyJet-planesAT least 28 flights to and from Spain have been cancelled due to a strike by French air traffic controllers.

Controllers from the UNSA union have gone on strike at Brest, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence airports as part of a four-day strike that began yesterday.

Workers at Nice and Marseille airports also went on strike today.

The dispute has arisen over working times and conditions, affecting all flights that use French air space.

Some 28 flights arriving or leaving Spain were cancelled today.

Some 18 were from Spanish airline Vueling.

Easyjet, Ryanair, Iberia and BA have also been affected.

All passengers who have flights up until Thursday are advised to check the status of them before travelling.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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