VIDEO: France air union ditches strike but many flights cancelled

ROISSY-EN-FRANCE - Hundreds of flights were cancelled at French airports Thursday despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay.

In Paris around 75 percent of flights at Orly and 55 percent at Charles de Gaulle airport will be dropped Thursday, the DGAC civil aviation authority told airlines in a notification seen by AFP on Wednesday.

Around 65 percent of services at Marseille airport and 45 percent elsewhere in France will also be cancelled, it added.

The impact is expected to be similar to the cancellations expected when the strike was still going ahead. The union's demands had come in response to a planned overhaul of French air-traffic control systems.

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