Tens of thousands of passengers were disrupted when French ATC staff walked out on July 3 and 4 in a dispute over working ...

EasyJet was the most-affected airline following the closure of Southend airpor t due to an air ambulance crash on Sunday.

The airline was forced to warn investors industrial action by French air traffic control would weigh on profits this year.

Strikes by French air traffic control (ATC) workers are creating “unexpected and significant costs for all airlines”, according to the boss of easyJet.

Easyjet has revealed recent air traffic control disruption in France cost it around £15m as it warned the “scale of industrial action” would dent annual hit profits. “We are extremely unhappy with the ...