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  • Travelers walk past Air France desk at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Air France pilots have begun a week-long strike, affecting more than 50 per cent of scheduled flights. Christophe Ena / AP Photo
    Travelers walk past Air France desk at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Air France pilots have begun a week-long strike, affecting more than 50 per cent of scheduled flights. Christophe Ena / AP Photo
  • A passenger waits at a check-in counter on the first day of an Air France one-week strike at Nice international airport. Eric Gaillard / Reuters
    A passenger waits at a check-in counter on the first day of an Air France one-week strike at Nice international airport. Eric Gaillard / Reuters
  • Passengers wait by the Air France desk at the Marseille-Marignane airport. southern France. The strike will cost the airline between €10 million to €15 million a day, its chief executive Frederic Gagey said. Boris Horvat / AFP
    Passengers wait by the Air France desk at the Marseille-Marignane airport. southern France. The strike will cost the airline between €10 million to €15 million a day, its chief executive Frederic Gagey said. Boris Horvat / AFP

In pictures: Travel chaos as Air France pilots strike

Rob Gurdebeke

September 15, 2014

Air France is bracing for the most disruptive strike since 1998, with over 58 per cent of services affected, as pilots go on a week-long walk out over management plans to transfer jobs to a low-cost carrier to keep up with competition.

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