France’s rail company has launched a low-cost, high-speed train service, with starting prices of 10 euros to travel from the Paris region to the south of France.
Irish-based aircraft-leasing company Avolon has ordered 20 Airbus A320neo passenger jets from the Toulouse-based European company. The catalogue value of the order is 1.48 billion euros.
Flights from Paris’s Charles De Gaulle and Roissy airports were running an hour late on average, following the first serious nationwide snowfall of the year in France.
Tens of thousands of passengers were blocked at a Paris train station on Wednesday evening, after an incident caused train delays and cancellations into the night.
High-speed TGV trains heading south-east from Paris were back to normal on Friday morning after a signalling failure caused by thieves who cut cables to steal copper wire.
Air France has cancelled all flights to or from New York and Washington due to Hurricane Sandy. But the airline is still flying to Boston, according to its website.
The search for 12-year-old Pierre Barnes, the British boy who went missing in high winds on the French Mediterranean island of Porquerolles this weekend, started again Monday morning after an ...