Air Traffic Control: Strikes

(asked on 7th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the cost to the EU economy of strikes by air traffic controllers across Europe in 2014 and 2015.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 14th June 2016

The Government has made no such estimate and does not have comprehensive data on how airlines adjusted their schedules during the strikes, or the impacts on passengers.

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