The World - News from Dec. 21, 1986
Strikes again disrupted French air and rail services as Paris braced for three days of pre-Christmas chaos with labor unrest threatening subway services as well. The domestic airline Air Inter canceled 42 flights after navigators began a two-day walkout to protest a threatened loss of around 220 flight crew jobs when the airline adopts the new Airbus A-320 jet in 1988. A strike by railway clerks over pay, which has hit train services in northern France and the north Paris suburbs over the past two days, spread to the south.
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