Air France passengers face delays and disruption as pilots begin a one-week strike over company plans to cut costs in <br />order to combat the dominance of Easy Jet and Ryan Air.<br /><br />The industrial action will cost Air France dear with estimates running at between 10 and 15 million euros a day.<br /><br />Travelers just want to reach their destination: “I was told earlier that the captain is on strike, so that’s why it’s been cancelled. And I thought that something was up when I saw that my flight wasn’t on the departures board. So I just have to hope that I can get back to Vienna in time to be at work,” said one of the stranded.<br /><br />The airline announced earlier this month that it planned to open new hubs in Europe under the Transavia banner to obtain a foothold in the low-cost, short haul market.
