Passenger travel resumes in Europe
An Air France airplane takes off as part of the gradual resumption of flights today at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris on April 20, 2010. Passengers across Europe have been stranded since last Thursday following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, with air travel largely shut down across most of northern Europe. UPI/David Silpa
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Air France-KLM said it had no plans to cut employees or reduce assets at Italian airline Alitalia in order to raise fresh capital.
Police said they have arrested six men who allegedly stole blocks of gold worth $2.16 million from an Air France plane in Paris.
A record seizure of 1.3 tons of pure cocaine aboard an Air France airliner raises questions about possible complicity of French airport workers, police say.
Police said they charged 17 baggage handlers at the Charles De Gaulle airport near Paris with stealing more than $230,000 worth of valuables from suitcases.
A strike by French air traffic controllers that resulted in thousands of flight cancellations is set to end Thursday, officials said.
A French village buried a Cameroonian man who was found dead in the landing gear of an airplane that landed at a local airport, officials said.
A late-winter European storm that hit France with snow and ice this week could deal a $914 million economic blow to the country, officials estimated.
A French appeals court overturned a ruling that found Continental Airlines guilty of manslaughter in a 2000 Concorde jet crash that killed 113 people.
Seven customs officers in Paris have been charged with stealing from people they believed were taking drug profits out of France.
A strike by security staff disrupted outgoing flights at two major French airports Saturday morning, officials said.
