"Strike expected to limit French flights" by Associated Press | July 21, 2010
PARIS — French air traffic controllers launched a two-day strike yesterday that is expected to cancel many flights in and out of France today....
Unions of air traffic controllers are striking over a plan to unify European airspace. The Single European Sky concept is intended to ensure greater efficiency and deal with a projected increase in traffic, but French air traffic controllers are worried about how it will affect them....
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Related: Raise Flight 447!
Maybe it is a good thing I didn't make the gate.
Also see: Europe Under an Iron Veil
Yeah, that has seemed to take up most of the attention of France and my newspaper.