easyJet has cited air traffic control restrictions as a major reason for poor punctuality. Today, however, there is an air traffic controllers' strike in France and yet, unlike Ryanair, there is no mention of it on the easyJet website. Furthermore, the easyJet website gives no idication that any of today's flights are cancelled, whereas the Ryanair website lists all cancelled flights.
It gets worse. The arrivals section on the Gatwick Airport website is currently showing the following easyJet cancellations.
1505 Nice
1610 Barcelona
1735 Alicante
1745 Mahon
1825 Murcia
2155 Bordeaux
I have every sympathy with easyJet for having to cancel flights today through no fault of its own. However, it would seem that easyJet is not being totally honest with its customers. If Gatwick Airport is able to list easyJet cancellations for today, why can't easyJet do the same on its own website? It makes me increasingly suspicious that recent poor punctality performance owes more to crew shortages and less to air traffic control restrictions.
Time for easyJet to come clean on this issue!