• 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

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In pictures: Travel chaos as Air France pilots strike

Rob Gurdebeke

September 15, 2014

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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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