Prepare for ‘Stay at Home Summer’: Warnings that school holiday getaways EVERYWHERE in Europe will be thrown into chaos as UK, Spain, France, Italy and Germany suffer perfect storm of airport anarchy, strikes and post-Covid worker shortage

British holidaymakers are facing a summer of travel chaos in Europe as countries across the Continent grapple with a perfect storm of airport mayhem, mass strikes over wage-busting inflation, and crippling post-Covid staffing shortages.

Flyers grappling with cancellations and lost luggage at Britain’s biggest airports are bracing themselves for strikes among British Airways staff at London Heathrow in the next two months.

But disruption across mainland Europe – from France, Spain and Italy to Germany, Romania and Ireland – now threatens to upend school holiday getaways as workers prepare to unleash mass industrial action in protest over rampant global inflation caused by Putin‘s brutal war in Ukraine and major staffing shortages caused by pandemic-era mass layoffs.

Staff at Charles de Gaulle (CDG) in Paris, France’s biggest airport, and Orly are plotting strike action this weekend in a dispute over pay and working conditions. France’s civil aviation authority said 17% of scheduled flights out of CDG and Orly are cancelled between 7am and 2pm today, with more expected tomorrow. When CGD staff walked out on June 9, a staggering 25% of flights were scrapped.

And this week, a staff walkout at the French Air Traffic Control centre in Marseille this week brought mass flight disruption for UK holidaymakers travelling to popular summer destinations including Italy and Spain.

In Spain, Ryanair staff are going on strike this week at the airline’s bases, including Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona, Alicante, Sevilla, Palma, Valencia, Girona, Santiago de Compostela and Ibiza.