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 From the UK - Sky News
 Tourist flight misery coming to end British airports are returning
 to normal after a weekend of misery for thousands of passengers.
     Airports at London, Manchester, Newcastle  and Glasgow suffered
 delays as a result of industrial action by Spanish air traffic
 controllers.
     Glasgow, which was worst-affected, reported its flight backlog
 was easing.
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  No progress for Air France; inevitable strike may foul World Cup
     PARIS - May 31, 1998 7:03 p.m. EDT -- Air France failed Sunday
 to reach an agreement with pilots seeking to block cuts in their
 wages, setting the stage for a midnight strike that could disrupt
 travel plans during the World Cup.
     Most of the company's aircraft -- many of them decorated with
 players representing the 32 World Cup teams -- would be grounded by
 the strike, which could last longer than two weeks.
     Air France expects to cancel 90 percent of long-haul flights for
 the coming week. About 25 percent of short- and medium-haul flights
 out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport are likely to fly as planned,
 the company has said, as are about 20 percent leaving from Orly airport.
     Fearful that France's image could be tarnished when the soccer
 matches begin June 10 before hundreds of thousands of spectators and
 a worldwide television audience, one leftist lawmaker, Georges Sarre,
 denounced the pilots as "the damned of the Earth."
     Sarre, speaking Sunday on French television, said the pilots are
 "practicing blackmail on the company."
     The SNPL union has called a 15-day renewable strike starting June
 1. Three smaller unions called for a strike from Monday to Thursday.
 Most of the state-run carrier's 3,200 pilots were likely to take part.
     An attempt at conciliation fell through Thursday, and no other
 talks were scheduled.
     The World Cup, held every four years, is one of the world's big-
 gest sporting events. It is expected to be watched by a combined
 television audience of 40 billion people. The tournament ends
 July 12.
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 Busiest air travel day prediction a bust - May 29, 1998 13:16 p.m. EDT
     ATLANTA -- Major airlines were busy over the Memorial Day weekend
 -- but predictions of more travelers than ever flying last Friday
 fell short of expectations.
     Last week, the Air Transport Association predicted that travelers
 gearing up for the Memorial Day weekend would make Friday, May 22, the
 busiest travel day in aviation history, with more than two million
 people expected to fly. That expectation was based on advanced airline
 ticket bookings.
     However, the major airlines, represented by ATA, said the associ-
 ation's prediction didn't live up to expectations.
     ATA also predicted load factors -- the percentage of seats filled
 on a flight -- would be as high as 83 percent system-wide.
     ATA told CNN it does not follow up on its predictions with sta-
 tistics on the numbers of people who actually flew. ATA spokeswoman
 Diana Kronin said the association publishes air travel predictions as
 a service to travelers to help them plan trips during busy holiday
 travel periods.
     No records, but not a slow day either
     Despite falling short of breaking records, the airlines did report
 heavy travel volume. Delta Air Lines was 1,000 passengers short of
 breaking its all-time travel record, which remains the Sunday after
 Thanksgiving in 1996. Delta spokesman Bill Barry said the airline
 flew 357,887 passengers on last Friday, representing a load factor of
 85 percent.
     United Airlines said passenger loads did not break records, al-
 though it was the busiest Memorial Day weekend ever for the carrier.
 United spokesman Joe Hopkins said the airline flew about 280,000
 passengers, or an 81.7 percent load.
     American Airlines said the number of passengers traveling on its
 planes on Friday was below record levels and represented only an 80
 percent load.
     The number of passengers traveling last Friday didn't break
 records at US Airways either. Spokesman Dave Castleveter said Friday
 was the heaviest travel day of the Memorial Day weekend, with loads
 close to 90 percent, but that's not a record for the airline. The
 Sunday following Thanksgiving last year was the carrier's busiest
 travel day ever.
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