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AER LINGUS HAS been forced to cancel more than a dozen flights this weekend following a continued “spike in Covid cases” and industrial action at a French Airport.
The cancellations by the airline include three return flights today and three return flights tomorrow.
A statement said that ground handling industrial action at Lyon Airport has required the cancellation of two return flights to Lyon today.
“Just over one percent of Aer Lingus flights have been impacted by cancellations in June.
“Aer Lingus wishes to apologise to those impacted and teams at the airline are working to re-accommodate impacted passengers on the next available services as efficiently as possible.
“Aer Lingus anticipated the return of demand for travel once Covid restrictions were removed and built appropriate buffers into our plans in order to deal with a reasonable level of additional disruption.
“System pressures and ongoing issues at some airports and among third party suppliers have created considerable operational challenges which have been compounded by a significant spike in Covid cases in recent days,” the airline said.
The affected flights in France are from Dublin to Lyon and back EI550 and EI551, and EI552 and EI553.
There are also Saturday flights cancelled for Dublin to Amsterdam and back EI610 and EI611.
The London Gatwick to Knock and back to London Gatwick EI911 and EI912 are also cancelled.
Also affected is the Dublin to London Gatwick flight EI232 and London Gatwick-Dublin EI237.
For Sunday the Aer Lingus flights cancelled due to Covid-19 cases among staff are Dublin to Lisbon to Dublin EI482 and EI483.
The Dublin to Malpensa, Italy to Dublin flights EI436 and EI437 as well as Dublin-Amsterdam-Dublin flights EI610/EI61 also not flying.
Aer Lingus said that they had shared the rights of passengers in such situations on their website.
EU regulations mean that passengers on these flights are entitled to full refunds from the airline or they compel the airline to facilitate them on another flight which may involve a need for paid hotels and food. They can also claim for phone calls and emails.
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photo caption should read Seoul, South Korea not Seoul, North Korea
I have booked a pub crawl trip for St Patricks Day 2018 to North Korea (Seriously).
A war would be very inconvenient for my travel plans.
They’re some lads for the parades alright.
How crazy is it that a place like North Korea exists in 2017!!! They obviously do not care about ‘sanctions’- so how do you deal with them?
The same could be said about a lot of Middle Eastern and African countries.
@Martin Flood: I agree. Nobody should be starving or in slavery in 2017.
@Martin Flood: Middle East had oil so that’s why you see a lot of invasions to save the people.
I don’t remember too many invasions of African countries to save the people, probably because they don’t have oil. Rwandan genocide is a prime example.
Fat Boy doesn’t have to worry about sanctions. He and his favoured ones get all the Camembert and Chateau Petrus they want to keep them happy. And everyone else doesn’t care because they wouldn’t be getting any with or without sanctions.
How many Irish ministers are going to North Korea for Paddy’s day?
The problem is China will always back North Korea.
It’s time to remove north korea. Pack of idiots.
@Keith Fay: how do you propose we do this? Without killing 24 million people…
@Keith Fay: We are already killing them slowly with global sanctions. The little fat dear leader isn’t hurt by famine his people are.
@Keith Fay: Good man Keith. You lead the way.
Haha. Nah you’re right they’re grand.
@Andy Wallace:
your right…. the arms embargo on north korea are starving the civilian population
Nuke ‘em. Do it now.
@Kieran Jones: And the fall out? I don’t think Japan and South Korea would appreciate that.
Less not forget North Korea ally – China, one of the world’s most powerful nuclear powers. Even if they don’t retaliate the fall out would effect them as well and they produce a hell of a lot of items for world markets. Fancy your kid playing with a toy from China after the fall out?
@Kieran Jones: Go back to your PlayStation.
@Kieran Jones: Kieran, you do know reality is very different from your XBox world?
Kieran I know how you feel we were all waiting for “Duke Nukem Forever” for like, forever. But the studio says it’ll be done when it’s done, last time I looked. Which was about 2003…Kieran’s clearly still a believer..
If there was ever a case for dropping the big one and wiping out a nation, North Korea must be it
They have legalised cannabis in North Korea!!
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