Melbourne Airport hit by power cut

More flights to and from Paris' main airports were due to be cancelled Friday as an air traffic controllers' strike goes into its fourth day, aviation authorities said.Disruption could also be caused at the weekend by a separate action by Air France pilots' unions who called a strike from Friday to Monday to protest at restructuring plans.On Thursday domestic flights from the Orly hub were the worst hit, with 50 percent cancelled, but the situation had improved at Charles de Gaulle international airport, where only 15 percent of services were abandoned.

Some 1,000 Finnair technical services staff walked off the job Tuesday in what unions said would be a week-long protest against the company's plans to cut jobs as part of an outsourcing deal.The strike will hit maintenance services for its scheduled services at Helsinki-Vantaa airport but the company said that it would be able to fly most of its flights on schedule, although some cancellations were to be expected.

U.S. regulators on Friday approved a revamped battery system for Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner, a crucial step in returning the high-tech jet to service after more than three months of grounding prompted by lithium-ion batteries that burned on the planes. The Federal Aviation Administration said it approved a package of detailed design changes, a move that allows Boeing to issue a service bulletin and make repairs to the fleet of 50 planes owned by eight airlines around the world.

512 flights departing from or arriving at American airports have been canceled this morning as winter storms move east, according to FlightAware.com.

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways returned to the air on Monday after grounding its entire global fleet over the weekend in a bold tactic to force the government to intervene in the nation's worst labor dispute in a decade. Presented By: Grainger has power transmission covered.

MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways scrambled to get back in the air on Monday, having grounded its entire fleet over the weekend in a bold tactic to force the government to intervene in the nation's worst labor dispute in a decade. Presented By: Grainger aids power outage response.

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