France asks airlines to cut flights at Paris airports by 40% ahead of planned strike
The agency said it had also requested that airlines cut by half flights into and out of Nice and by 30% at the airports for Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari.
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