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Travellers sleep while waiting for news of their flights inside the Juscelino Kubitschek airport as chaos continued in Brazil's airports after the end of a five-hour strike by air traffic controllers in Brasilia
31 Mar 2007
Source: Reuters
 
Travellers sleep while waiting for news of their flights inside the Juscelino Kubitschek airport in Brasilia March 31, 2007, as chaos continued in Brazil's airports after the end of a five-hour strike by air traffic controllers. The government reached an overnight agreement with air traffic controllers to end their strike, but the brief walkout was enough to provoke dozens of cancellations and delays in nearly all the country's airports, and affected international flights in the region that use Brazilian airspace.
REUTERS/JAMIL BITTAR


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