Irish passengers set for flight delays as French traffic controllers strike

Hundreds of Irish passengers are facing flight delays over the next three days.

Industrial action being carried out by French traffic controllers are likely to experience lengthy delays or cancellations.

Airlines like Ryanair, easyJet and British Airways are all likely to be affected.

The strike started today and does not end until 5am on Tuesday morning.

A spokesman for easyJet said: “We have been pro-actively informing affected customers, so they have the opportunity to reorganise their journeys.

“Affected customers can change their flight free of charge or receive a refund. We advise customers to make any amendments to their booking on the Manage My Bookings area of easyJet.com.

“As well as affecting flights to and from France, the strike action is causing delays to other flights which use French airspace.

“We recommend that all customers travelling on Sunday 20 and Monday 21 March, 2016 check the status of their flight on our Flight Tracker page.

“Although this is outside of our control, we would like to apologise to all our customers for any inconvenience and would like to reassure them we are doing all possible to minimise any disruption as a result of the industrial action”