Air France Pilots Agree to End 2-week Strike

Air France's leading pilots union has decided to end to a two-week strike that crippled the French airline, a union official told Reuters on Sunday. The strike's end comes after Air France offered Wednesday to scrap a central part of a plan to shift most of its European operations to low-cost carrier Transavia. That plan had prompted the strike, because pilots see it as a way to outsource their jobs to countries with lower taxes and labor costs. Air France wants to restructure...

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