LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - British low-cost airline easyJet plans to reduce flights to and from France by around 30percent on Thursday due to an air traffic controllers strike inthe country on Thursday.
"EasyJet has been asked by the DGAC (France's civil aviationauthority) to reduce its French flights by 30 percent and as aresult will cancel at least 50 flights to and from Paris Charlesde Gaulle, Paris Orly, Basel, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseilles andToulouse," the airline said in a statement on Wednesday.
Around 70 percent of easyJet's flights operate throughFrench airspace, meaning there is a risk of delays and latenotice cancellations to many other flights, the airline said.
Flights from the UK to destinations such as Spain, Portugal,Italy, Cyprus, Greece and North Africa face the threat ofdisruption, it added.
While European air traffic controller unions have liftedtheir strike order, two French unions representing about aquarter of all controllers in France maintained the order aftertalks with the civil aviation authority failed.
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