At least three Britons died in Peru after their light aircraft crashed near one of the country’s most famous tourist attractions, it emerged today.

French air traffic controllers are planning a four-day strike from tomorrow over job fears.

Flights at Paris’ two main airports were being hit by an air traffic controllers strike today.

France’s civil aviation authority has called on airlines to cancel 30% of flights scheduled to leave Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport tomorrow morning due to forecasts of overnight snowstorms.

Concorde has been cleared to fly again after the British Civil Aviation Authority and its French equivalent, the DGAC, agreed to return the aircraft’s certificate of airworthiness, British Airways said today.

Plans for Concorde to resume passenger flights this autumn have been put on hold.

Air France has been given permission to fly a Concorde round trip from Paris for tests amid hopes of returning the grounded supersonic fleet to the sky.