Flights ‘severely disrupted’ by French air traffic control strike

Travellers wait by empty check-in desks at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris (Francois Mori/AP)

Many domestic and some international flights have been cancelled in France as air traffic controllers staged a national strike over pay and recruitment.

French civil aviation authority DGAC warned that domestic traffic would be “severely disrupted” with many flights cancelled and others facing long delays.