As air controllers' strike follows rail dispute, French plan new freight shuttle

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Getting freight around France is more than challenging at the moment. As rail unions come off a two-week strike, air traffic controllers start a six-day one, in protest at cuts which will see Europe get a single, more efficient and cheaper airspace.

As IATA chief Tony Tyler said this morning: “There are more borders in the skies over Europe than exist on land. And that comes at a great cost. In 2012, over 130m hours of potentially productive time were wasted ...