EasyJet has revealed the cancellation of 1,700 flights during the peak summer holiday season.
Ryanair, which has blamed the air traffic controllers' action for disruption to 1.1 million passengers, has previously called for the European Commission to intervene to protect services.
The cancelled easyJet flights represent 2% of its summer flight schedule, affecting up to 180,000 customers.An easyJet spokesperson said:"We are currently operating up to around 1,800 flights and carrying around 250,000 customers per day, with more crew and pilots flying than ever before and like all airlines, we review our flights on an ongoing basis.
"We have therefore made some pre-emptive adjustments to our programme consolidating a small number of flights at Gatwick, where we have multiple daily frequencies, in order to help mitigate these external challenges on the day of travel for our customers and we continue to operate around over 90,000 flights over this period.
"Customers whose flights are affected are being informed, with 95% of customers being rebooked onto an alternative flight and all customers provided with the option to rebook or receive a refund.
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