Flights cancelled as French air traffic controllers protest pension reform

Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris. © AFP - Christophe Archambault

The French civil aviation authority asked airlines on Monday to cancel 20 percent of their flights at Paris-Orly and Marseille-Provence airports for Tuesday and Wednesday, due to a strike by air traffic controllers against pension reform.

"Despite these preventive measures, disruptions and delays are nevertheless to be expected," the civil aviation authority said in a statement on Monday.