Airport workers in France, as well as Ryanair and easyJet staff in Spain, will heap more misery on hard-hit UK holidaymakers in the coming days. The message from the airlines is: check your flights.
The industrial action will add to the problems travellers are currently facing at UK airports, with delays at security and last-minute flight cancellations commonplace. The industrial action is the latest trouble to hit global airports this summer, as travel resurges after two years of Covid restrictions.
French airports have been largely spared the chaos seen recently in London, Amsterdam and some other European and US cities. But on Friday, striking workers want to call attention to the pain of inflation, with unions saying the strike could last until Sunday.
