Air France cabin crews call strike

Unions representing cabin crew at Air France have called a five-day strike over salary and working conditions.

Unions representing cabin crew at Air France have called a five-day strike over salary and working conditions.

Sources said trade unions were trying to pressure management into renegotiating an agreement on salaries and working conditions that will expire at the end of 2007.

A spokeswoman for Air France-KLM, the world's largest airline by revenue, said a meeting between management and union representatives started today.

It was not immediately clear what proportion of Air France's cabin crew staff would effectively go on strike, sources said.

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Disruption at Air France would follow a nationwide strike over pensions that crippled train, metro and bus transport in France last week.