Ryanair, Europe's largest airline, launched contiguous (Friday, October 3) a caller fierce onslaught connected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – whom it mockingly called "von Derlayed-Again" – calling connected her to either proceed with contiguous betterment of aerial postulation power (ATC) services oregon resign.
The involution comes aft Ryanair published its “ATC Delays League” for September, according to which France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and Greece recorded the astir formation delays and cancellations, owed to a deficiency of capable staffing and mismanagement of nationalist ATC services.
In contrast, countries specified arsenic Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark are presented arsenic affirmative examples, offering businesslike services without important unit shortages, which results successful minimal delays.
According to the company's data, much than 30 cardinal passengers successful the EU person been affected successful 2025 alone. Ryanair is asking the Commission to instrumentality 2 measures:
Mandatory afloat staffing of ATC services during the archetypal question of greeting flights, with fines imposed successful cases of violation.
Overflight extortion successful the lawsuit of nationalist aerial postulation controller strikes to safeguard the azygous European aerial transport market.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary said:
“It is unacceptable that Europe’s worst performing ATCs – France, Spain, Germany, the UK and Greece – proceed to enforce millions of delays and cancellations connected passengers. If Ursula von der Leyen cannot present the indispensable reforms, past she should measurement speech and fto idiosyncratic much susceptible instrumentality over.”
The information for 2025 (January 1 – September 29):
Worst ATC performance:
- France: 57,109 flights delayed (10,279,620 passengers affected)
- Spain: 34,145 flights (6,146,100 passengers)
- Germany: 16,132 flights (2,903,760 passengers)
- United Kingdom: 7,429 flights (1,337,220 passengers)
- Greece: 6,738 flights (1,212,840 passengers)
Best ATC performance:
- Bulgaria: 112 flights (20,160 passengers)
- Slovakia: 460 flights (82,800 passengers)
- Netherlands: 533 flights (95,940 passengers)
- Belgium: 578 flights (104,040 passengers)
- Denmark: 701 flights (126,180 passengers)
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