Freeze a strings of air passengers in Paris

PARIS - French aviation authorities about a third of the flights to and from Paris's main airport conditions, stranding canceled Friday because of freezing hundreds of passengers per day before Christmas.

While travelling in the UK was improvement after days of headache, travelers in Ireland, Denmark and Brussels stranded new snowfall.

Passengers at the airport Paris Charles de Gaulle were asked a section of major because large amounts of snow on the roof terminal leave for security reasons, Deputy Director of the said airport Paris ADP Bernard Cathelain.

The terminal roof collapsed partially in 2004, shortly after the building in operation, four passengers killed and injured was taken six others. Precautionary measures, evacuation was issued while emergency snow from the roof disabled workers.

Around five thousand travelers are stranded at the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, interrupting such as winter weather of next flights. Video courtesy of Reuters.

The French civil aviation authority scales back a previous request to airlines only 35% instead of half cancel your flights.

Eric Heraud, a spokesman for the general direction of civil aviation said cancellation are necessary because the airport on reserves of ethylene glycol, the liquid used aircraft de-icing running low.

Passengers wait associated press for your flights in a Terminal to sleep a night on the Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris.

The problem was been exacerbated a strike at the parent factory which makes deicing fluid in France transport Thierry Mariani said in a radio interview with France Inter.

A supply of deicing fluid came from the United States Friday.

Airlines canceled 400 1,160 flights due to land or take off from Charles de Gaulle, said Mr Heraud.

Hundreds of passengers already spent Thursday evening, had broken the night at the airport after some 50 flights were said Elise Hermant, a spokeswoman for Aéroports de Paris, the State-controlled airports.

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Airport had deleted just caused by bad weather early the backlog of delays in the week.

Scores of trains were also late or broken in France Friday morning. But the situation Orly, other major airport in Paris, was described as normal.

Airlines to offer to reimburse stranded passengers or to transfer flights and accommodation, but hotel capacity around the airport is limited and "Some airlines do not play the game", said Mr Heraud.

Lack of aircraft de-icing fluid made Ireland and Belgium airports as well as the delays around the continent leads to a domino effect.

Surprise snow threw Ireland Dublin Airport into chaos with some 40,000 passengers stranded or delayed. Irish Ferries added extra crossings between Great Britain and Ireland.

"We have no capacity." We start off from the aircraft crews or liquid de-icing locations, ", said Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary.

In Brussels, the Red Cross was in hundreds of cots for passengers who bring spending the night at the airport. Jan van of the Cruysse said you expected, keep several hundred passengers airport spokesman would stranded overnight.

In the UK airports largely as normal as the land that out thawed frosty weather worked days said services. However, Christmas travelers with limited train connections and icy roads were contending. About a quarter of services were aborted track on some routes.

Germany closed Düsseldorf Airport for several hours on Friday morning due to the new snow with some 65 flights cancelled.

Denmark remains the Baltic Sea Island of Bornholm of's worst hit by the snow. 400 Passengers on two ferries to the island spent the night on the ferries. On Friday the passengers, the port city of Rønne could reach, where you were housed in barracks and a sports facility.

-Associated press contributed to this article.

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