article_snippet.sent: There were delays and 1,000 flight cancellations across Europe this month following the 48-hour strike by French air-traffic controllers.
article_snippet.sent: easyJet is France’s second-largest airline and cancelled 588 flights over the two days.
article_snippet.sent: easyJet launched ‘rescue flights’ to repatriate holidaymakers and children stranded abroad.
article_snippet.sent: Ryanair cancelled 500 flights while British Airways and Flybe cancelled fewer than 50 each.
article_snippet.sent: Travel chaos: There were delays and 1,000 flight cancellations across Europe this month following the 48-hour strike by French air-traffic controllers.
article_snippet.sent: And flight cancellations have risen by a fifth in the first quarter of 2015 as services were hit by poor weather as well as the strikes.
article_snippet.sent: There were 5,080 cancellations in the first three months of 2015 compared to 4,239 in the same period last year.
article_snippet.sent: Ryanair cancelled 500 flights while British Airways and Flybe cancelled fewer than 50 each.
article_snippet.sent: Above, a flight information board at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, where several flights were cancelled .
article_snippet.sent: Firstly the winter weather across Europe has been worse than 2014 this particularly affected Jet2, EasyJet and Monarch who suffered considerable delays on easyJet and Monarch routes to Chambery and Grenoble in France.
article_snippet.sent: The four-day Lufthansa strike resulted in some 116 cancelled flights to the UK, strikes by Italian air traffic controllers and security staff in Germany has also compounded the problem.
highlights_snippet.sent: Customers sought to claim after French strikes affected flights easyJet .
  