France Airport Strike

France was plunged into political turmoil on Monday three weeks before hosting the Olympics, while a call for strikes at Paris airports added fresh uncertainty to the already tense build up.

The French civil aviation authority has ordered airlines to cancel 70 percent of flights at Paris Orly airport on Saturday and Sunday because of a strike by air traffic controllers.

A 41-year-old Frenchman was today arrested at Britain's second busiest airport Gatwick with a weapon that appeared to be a firearm, following the evacuation of a terminal, police said.

Security was today stepped up in the national capital especially outside the French embassy, government buildings and international airport in New Delhi following an alert by intelligence agencies in the wake of terror strikes in Paris in which over 120 people have been killed.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled and delays reported at airports around France today as a strike by air traffic controllers entered its second day.

At least 200 passengers were forced to spend Tuesday night in a Paris airport after an ongoing air traffic controllers' strike disrupted their flights to Spain and Portugal.

Airlines were forced to cancel flights to and from Paris's main airports and several cities in southern France Tuesday as air traffic controllers kicked off a six-day strike.

After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers are now walking off the job to protest a reorganisation of the national rail and train companies.

Thousands of flights in and out of French airports were cancelled on Wednesday as a strike by air traffic controllers intensified just hours before a nationwide rail strike was due to start.

French air traffic controllers walked off the job at the start of a three-day strike on Tuesday, grounding hundreds of flights across the country in a Europe-wide protest against European Union plans to liberalize civil airspace.

French air traffic controllers have launched a strike that is expected to cancel many flights in and out of France on Wednesday.France's civil aviation authority said it asked airlines to scrap 20 percent of flights Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and 50 percent at the smaller Orly airport.While the strike officially started Tuesday evening,...

France was plunged into political turmoil on Monday three weeks before hosting the Olympics, while a call for strikes at Paris airports added fresh uncertainty to the already tense build up.

The French civil aviation authority has ordered airlines to cancel 70 percent of flights at Paris Orly airport on Saturday and Sunday because of a strike by air traffic controllers.

A 41-year-old Frenchman was today arrested at Britain's second busiest airport Gatwick with a weapon that appeared to be a firearm, following the evacuation of a terminal, police said.

Security was today stepped up in the national capital especially outside the French embassy, government buildings and international airport in New Delhi following an alert by intelligence agencies in the wake of terror strikes in Paris in which over 120 people have been killed.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled and delays reported at airports around France today as a strike by air traffic controllers entered its second day.

At least 200 passengers were forced to spend Tuesday night in a Paris airport after an ongoing air traffic controllers' strike disrupted their flights to Spain and Portugal.

Airlines were forced to cancel flights to and from Paris's main airports and several cities in southern France Tuesday as air traffic controllers kicked off a six-day strike.

After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers are now walking off the job to protest a reorganisation of the national rail and train companies.

Thousands of flights in and out of French airports were cancelled on Wednesday as a strike by air traffic controllers intensified just hours before a nationwide rail strike was due to start.

French air traffic controllers walked off the job at the start of a three-day strike on Tuesday, grounding hundreds of flights across the country in a Europe-wide protest against European Union plans to liberalize civil airspace.

French air traffic controllers have launched a strike that is expected to cancel many flights in and out of France on Wednesday.France's civil aviation authority said it asked airlines to scrap 20 percent of flights Wednesday at Charles de Gaulle airport and 50 percent at the smaller Orly airport.While the strike officially started Tuesday evening,...