Holiday makers face delays at Irish airports due to strike by French air traffic controllers.
Captain Cronin, Aer Lingus, outlines some of the challenges faced by the airline as a result of the strike in France.
Instead of going the normal airways routes over France, we have to go down the Atlantic.
Aer Lingus is rerouting flights that would normally travel across France outside the French traffic control area.
French air traffic controllers were operating a go-slow.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 22 July 1978. Part of the footage shown here is mute.
