Airlines
Europe Still Struggling with Traffic Delays as Congestion Soars
Ryanair ranks as largest user of European air space

Unsustainable flight delays throughout Europe persisted in September as air traffic infrastructure could not cope with the continued high capacity output by airlines. Total air traffic flow management (ATFM) delays last month increased by 20.1 percent compared with September 2017 and ATFM delays finished 54.4 percent higher during the rolling 12-month through September 2018 compared with the same period a year ago, Eurocontrol’s most recent network operations report revealed.