“Europe’s Single European Sky (SESAR) project has been a 20-year catalogue of failure. No progress has been made in two decades. Eurocontrol has already recommended that the Commission take legal action to protect overflights, and it is about time that Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission stopped hiding and started acting to defend the Single Market for air travel across Europe.” says airline.
Ryanair condemned the persevering with cancellation of flights over France attributable to repeated French ATC strikes. As at all times, French Minimum Service Legislation is used to guard French home flights, however EU overflights from Germany, Spain, Italy, the UK and Ireland are cancelled solely as a result of a tiny French ATC union repeatedly closes the skies over Europe.
Over this previous weekend, over 25% of Ryanair’s 9,000 scheduled flights had been delayed attributable to French ATC disruptions, and 230 flights (41,000 passengers) had been cancelled to adjust to French ATC capability restrictions. These repeated disruptions of EU overflights are unacceptable.
Last 12 months, Eurocontrol really helpful the Commission take modest motion to reply to ATC strikes (with out affecting the correct to strike) as follows;
- Impose ATC minimal service necessities with a transparent discount of home flights
- All overflights allowed with no ATC delays
- Minimum advance strike discover to permit airways to reschedule flights or advise passengers
Sadly, so far, the EU Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen have didn’t take any motion on these measures to guard EU residents and overflights.
A spokesperson for Ryanair mentioned: “Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission repeatedly declare that the Single Market is a precedence for Europe. In negotiations round Brexit, the Single Market was the EU Commission’s precedence. However, each time French ATC goes on strike, the Single Market for air journey over Europe is disrupted, but the EU Commission sits on its arms taking no motion.
When the French Government makes use of Minimum Service Legislation to guard French flights, why does Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission stand idly by and permit EU overflights to be disproportionately cancelled every day? We name on the Commission to take authorized motion towards France and its ATC unions, to guard EU overflights. Innocent EU passengers travelling from Germany to Spain, or from Ireland to Italy, are entitled to depend on the EU’s Single Market for air journey, and their overflights shouldn’t be repeatedly cancelled as a result of the EU Commission fails to take motion to defend the Single Market.
Europe’s Single European Sky (SESAR) challenge has been a 20-year catalogue of failure. No progress has been made in 20 years. Eurocontrol has already really helpful that the Commission take authorized motion to guard overflights, and it’s about time that Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission stopped hiding and began appearing to defend the Single Market for air journey throughout Europe. We haven’t any issue with French unions exercising their proper to strike, however we anticipate the European Commission to defend and defend the Single Market, and never have it repeatedly shut down or EU overflights cancelled simply because French ATC unions have interaction in these leisure strikes.”
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