Hundreds of Paris flights canceled Tuesday

Hundreds of flights at Paris' two main airports will be canceled Tuesday at the start of a four-day strike by air traffic controllers, the French civil aviation authority said.

The DGAC aviation authority ordered airlines to cancel 50 percent of flights at Orly and 25 percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle.

French carrier Air France said it would maintain all of its long-haul flights during the strike, with the protest movement affecting only its routes within France and Europe.

The Union of French Airports said Monday that some airports in provincial cities, including Pau, Biarritz, Grenoble, La Rochelle and Chambery, …