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The French civil aviation authority (DGAC) said
as many as one in two flights would be scrapped on Thursday, the
second day of the strike.
Budget airline easyJet said it was cancelling 118 flights to and
from France on April 8 and apologized to passengers for a strike
"outside of our control".
Low-cost carrier Ryanair posted dozens of flight
cancellations on its website, not just in France but across
Europe, blaming the French strike.
The state-employed air traffic controllers are threatening
further two-day stoppages later in April and at the start of May
-- when school breaks and public holidays boost vacation traffic
-- over what they say is management refusal to take their
demands seriously.
In a blog post, the SNCTA trade union denounced plans to raised
the age at which controllers are entitled to retire and
highlighted other complaints, including declining staff numbers
at a time of increasing national and European regulation.
Air France had advised passengers on Tuesday that 40 percent of
medium-haul flights would be canceled, with as many as two
thirds of short-haul flights scrapped at Paris Orly and other
French airports.
(Reporting By Brian Love; Editing by Larry King)
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