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Normandy Landings visit for Queen
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Air traffic strike closes airports
Hundreds of flights are cancelled and several regional airports closed because of French air traffic controllers' strike
FIVE French airports are closed today and hundreds of flights across the country cancelled due to a strike by air traffic controllers.
There are no flights landing or taking off from Pau, Biarritz, Grenoble, La Rochelle and Chambéry because of the industrial action.
Half of flights serving Paris Orly airport are cancelled - mostly short and medium-haul routes - and 25% of services using Charles de Gaulle are not running.
Latest flight running information:
Air France
British Airways
Easyjet
Ryanair
Paris airports
Lyon
Nice
Marseille
Toulouse
Bordeaux