Snow forces flight cancellations in Paris, Netherlands

PARIS, Jan 7:  Around 100 flights were cancelled at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport on Wednesday morning because of snowfall and fierce cold, and a further 40 at the French capital's Orly airport, France's transport minister said.
Meanwhile, hundreds of flights were grounded in the Netherlands on Tuesday, and trains and buses were cancelled across the country, as travellers faced another day of delay and disruption caused by unusually heavy snowfall.
At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, 400 flights were cancelled earlier in the day, with airline Air France-KLM saying that chemicals used to de-ice aircraft were running low.
All public bus services in Paris and the surrounding suburbs were also suspended due to icy roads, though the vast majority of metro and suburban rail systems were working, transport officials said.
It said the cold snap was of "rare intensity for the season", and authorities had already warned people in the Paris region to avoid unnecessary travel and work at home if possible on Wednesday.
Six people have died in weather-related accidents in France during Europe's bitterest cold snap this winter so far.    �"AFP