A strike by air traffic controllers is disrupting travel to, from and over France

About 40% of flights were canceled Friday astatine each Paris airports, and tens of thousands of passengers were rearranging plans astatine nan tallness of nan summertime recreation play because of a onslaught by French air postulation controllers seeking amended moving conditions.

Disruptions started hitting airports astir France connected Thursday and intensified connected Friday.

The nationalist civilian aviation authority asked airlines to cancel 40% of flights connected Friday astatine Charles de Gaulle, Orly, and Beauvais airports serving Paris, half of flights successful Nice, and 30% of flights successful Marseille, Lyon, and immoderate different cities.

Despite nan preventive cancellations, nan authority warned successful a connection that ″disruptions and agelong delays are to beryllium expected astatine each French airports.”

Ryanair was among nan airlines that announced wide disruptions, saying successful a connection it canceled much than 400 flights affecting 70,000 passengers.

The institution said nan onslaught affects each its flights complete French airspace, arsenic good arsenic postulation successful and retired of French airports, and urged nan European Union to reform air postulation rules.

One of nan 2 unions starring nan strike, UNSA-ICNA, said successful a connection that location are not capable labor to grip surging aerial recreation and that ostentation is eating distant astatine salaries.

The unions are besides protesting caller betterment measures aiming to much tightly show their work, prompted by a near-collision astatine nan Bordeaux airport.

Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot called nan national demands — and their determination to onslaught conscionable arsenic French schools adjacent for nan summertime and galore families caput connected picnic — ″unacceptable.″