Airline denies strike claim

Paris - Some Air France pilots went on a two-day strike yesterday but the French national airline said disruption was minimal…

Paris - Some Air France pilots went on a two-day strike yesterday but the French national airline said disruption was minimal. It said it had cancelled 4 per cent of flights from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport and 9 per cent from Orly airport. The SNPL pilots union claimed that the strike appeal had been "massively followed" by the airline's short-haul pilots.

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