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Ryanair Holding Plc scrapped flights for 100,000 passengers last month as operations at the discount carrier were hit by strikes in five nations together with air traffic control disruption across a swathe of Europe.
Ryanair cancelled almost 550 flights in August, compared with 27 a year earlier, the Dublin-based company said. Cockpit crews walked out on August 10 in Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, while controller shortages hit flights in the UK, Germany and France.
That limited passenger growth to 5 percent, though the addition of half a million customers from the company’s new Laudamotion unit in Austria swelled overall gains to 9 percent.