Topic: Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Air France A380 jumbo jet clips Delta aircraft (video)

Air France A380: The world's biggest passenger jet half spins at smaller Delta jet at New York's JFK airport Monday night. This was the second time an A380 has hit another jet on the ground.

Sarkozy tells French officials no more vacationing on Arab autocrats' dime

France's prime minister and foreign minister are taking heat for gratis luxury holidays in Egypt and Tunisia. President Sarkozy says vacationing in France is a better idea.

An embarrassed France backpedals from its support of Tunisia's Ben Ali

Before former President Ben Ali fled Tunisia amid the popular uprising, France offered its support to the troubled dictator. Now France is struggling to find new footing with its former colony.

Paris airport traffic latest to be snarled by Europe snow

Strikes at a French deicing fluid factory led to a shortage that grounded planes at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport as the rest of Europe's transportation system slowly dug out of snow drifts.

White Christmas snow brings Britain to a standstill

The second of two large dumps of snow to smother the country in two weeks came this weekend, along with temperatures so low that forecasters predict Britain is likely to experience its coldest December since 1910.

Paris snow tapers off, but travel and tourism still affected

Paris snow is unusual, but not unique. The Eiffel Tower and most forms of travel were hampered by the Paris snow.

Continental Airlines and Texas mechanic found guilty for Concorde crash

Concorde crash: A French court has found Continental Airlines and one of their mechanics to be guilty of manslaughter.

Concorde crash: US mechanic and Continental guilty, says French court

Continental Airlines and an American mechanic were convicted of manslaughter and fined for the 2000 Concorde crash. But none of the French defendants were found guilty.

France strikes disrupting access to airports

France strikes: Protesters opposed to raising France's retirement age are blocking or disrupting access to airports in Paris and around France.

Europe warms to full body scanners at airports after Northwest bomb scare

Europe leaders are now reconsidering using full body scanners that they had until recently opposed as lurid and voyeuristic.

When did Air France know about faulty air-speed sensors?

An internal document shows the airline was aware of the problem more than a year before flight 447 disappeared.

View from Paris: A puzzling tragedy dawns slowly

President Sarkozy calls Air France Flight 447 an unprecedented "catastrophe."

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