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Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Cal Calder and you might be able to hear in the background.

Here I am in central London, a plane coming into land at Heathrow Airport.

One of the planes which I think is on time, unlike an awful lot today, many of which are cancelled, many more of which are likely to be delayed. And that's because the month of May has begun with fresh travel

chaos. There will be thousands of people, British holiday makers who've been away for the

bank holiday weekend, hoping to return today. And they've been away for the bank holiday weekend hoping to return today

and they've been told their flight had cancelled because of striking air traffic controllers in France.

May Day, of course, very popular in lots of European countries.

There's a day of labour.

It's been chosen for the next general strike in France. This is in protest against

President Macron's pension reforms, raising the age of retirement from 62 to 64. French air traffic

controllers adjoining the walkout. that means that airlines have been ordered to ground hundreds of flights.

Ryanair says it's cancelled 220. That's 40,000 passengers, they say, have had their travel plans wrecked.

And that includes flights on Ryanair to and from Stancid, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh

and it's not just flying to France that is the problem. Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal also

affected. Easy jets grounded dozens of flights mainly within continental Europe but also from

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