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10th Aug 2018

Ryanair cancel 400 flights as strikes escalate around Europe with 50,000 passengers affected

Paul Moore

Ryanair Irish pilots strike

The latest Ryanair strike is taking place in five countries.

Ryanair pilots in several European countries are staging a strike that has prompted the budget carrier to cancel 400 flights.

Strikes are taking place in five European countries with 24-hour walk-outs taking place in Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands.

About 50,000 passengers are understood to have been told of cancellations on these flights – as reported by AP.

Germany will be worst hit by the industrial action, with 250 flight cancellations at ten airports.

The action is the largest in a series of strikes over pay and conditions.

The airline said that over 2,000 flights, or 85 percent of the schedule, would operate as normal and that the majority of passengers affected have been re-booked on other Ryanair services.

Ryanair released a statement which reads: “We took every step to minimise the disruption and we notified our customers as early as possible advising them of their free move, refund or reroute options. The majority of customers have already been accommodated on another Ryanair flight.”