The Latest Breaking News from DGAC

The French civil aviation authority has ordered airlines to cancel 70 percent of flights at Paris Orly airport on Saturday and Sunday because of a strike by air traffic controllers over staff shortages.

Exclusive: easyJet has cancelled almost 100 flights to and from the key airports in the French capital during the event

An airport shootout in Chile's capital killed a security officer and an alleged robber. The cash, aboard a plane from Miami, was being transferred to an armored truck.

An airport shootout in Chile’s capital has killed a security officer and an alleged robber in what authorities say was an attempted heist of more than $32 million in cash aboard a plane from Miami

Most trains will be cancelled in France on Thursday, with flights also affected and Paris' subway heavily disrupted, as part of a nationwide strike against the government's plan to make people work longer before they can retire.

(This Oct. 14 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Bart Groothuis' surname in the fifth, sixth and seventh paragraphs)

Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (France) (AFP) - Around 1,000 flights to and from France were cancelled Friday as the country's air traffic controllers went on strike, with their action also causing delays across European airspace.

French flag carrier Air France has cancelled more than half its short- and medium-haul flights this Friday, as the country's air traffic controllers go on strike.

France’s aviation authority the DGAC has warned of “severe” disruption and urged passengers to delay trips