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AIR traffic controllers went on strike across France yesterday, prompting the cancellation of 40 per cent of all flights.
Their union SNCTA called the two-day action in a dispute over working and retirement conditions, saying in a statement that disruption was expected across the country.
The country’s main airline Air France said that long-haul flights were not affected and it guaranteed to fulfil about 60 per cent of medium-haul flights from and to Paris’s main airport Charles de Gaulle.
But Air France added that it had grounded two out of three flights at Paris’s second-largest airport Orly.
The civil aviation agency said that part of the dispute involved conditions for raising the retirement age for controllers from 67 to 69 years.
It advised passengers to contact their airline for more information.
Further strikes are planned for April 16-18 and April 29-May 2, coinciding with French school spring holidays.
