Brussels flights again disrupted by air traffic controllers' strike


  • World
  • Thursday, 14 Apr 2016

An empty tarmac is pictured at the Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium in this December 15, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Eric Vidal/Files

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels Airport cancelled half its flights on Wednesday as anger mounted over a second day of industrial action by some air traffic controllers hampering a return to normality after last month's suicide bombings.

Some 200 of 400 scheduled flights were cancelled, an airport spokeswoman said. A later statement said the outlook for Thursday was still unclear. One of Europe's busiest, Brussels airport had reopened 10 days ago at much reduced capacity following the Islamic State attacks on March 22.

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