Flights cancelled from Toulouse airport after surprise strike
separate ongoing strike action
by rail workers, another unexpected strike was called at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in south-west France on Tuesday.
According to French news outlet,
La Dépêche
, the strike action was by civil aviation staff and the walkouts affected both flights arriving at and departing from the airport.
The French Civil Aviation Authority (
Direction générale de l'aviation civile
, DGAC) announced the surprise strike in the late afternoon on Monday
on X
, indicating that the airport would see a 30 percent reduction in their flight schedule.
At the time of publication, the DGAC had indicated that only flights on Tuesday would be affected, but there may some knock-on effects for Wednesday.
Some flights cancelled include those to destinations in the UK, such as a British Airways flight to London Heathrow airport at 11.25am and a Ryanair flight to London-Stansted at 1.15pm.
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If you were planning to travel to or from the Toulouse airport, you should check the status of your flight with your airline before heading to the airport. The list of cancelled flights can be found on the
airport website.
According to La Dépêche, airport workers have walked out because of "growing social tension in the transportation sector".
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