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A stranded Air France passenger advises his family of his late arrival at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris Monday April 28, 1997 as one-quarter of Air France's Europe's flights were cancelled. The pilots of the money-losing state airline Air Inter Europe, which is being merged with Air France, have staged a series of short strikes fighting job classification that would limit their advancement compared to Air France pilots.(AP photo/Michel Lipchitz)