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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/us-sends-deicer-to-paris-airport.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Passengers wait for their flights in a terminal after sleeping at Charles de Gaulle Roissy airport, near Paris(AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-us-sends-deicer-to-paris-airport.jpg" alt="Passengers wait for their flights in a terminal after sleeping at Charles de Gaulle Roissy airport, near Paris(AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Paris&#8217;s main airport has got an early Christmas gift flown in from the United States &#8211; a supply of de-icing fluid to get planes airborne.</p>
<p>A strike at the main French factory producing glycol led to shortages that forced authorities to halve the number of take-offs from Charles de Gaulle airport on Friday morning.</p>
<p>As freezing temperatures continued, the cutback was reduced about one third.</p>
<p>Meanwhile passengers at the airport were asked to leave a section of a major terminal for security reasons because of large amounts of snow on the roof, said Bernard Cathelain, deputy director of the Paris airport authority ADP.</p>
<p>He denied French media reports that the terminal, 2E, was evacuated, and said the terminal was still operating. &#8220;We&#8217;ve asked passengers to move&#8221; to another part of the terminal, he said. </p>
<p>A roof at terminal 2E collapsed in 2004, not long after it was opened, killing four travellers and sending tons of glass, steel and concrete showering down.</p>
<p>New snowfall caused travel problems around France and also shut Duesseldorf airport in Germany for hours.</p>
<p>French authorities said some 400 flights at Charles de Gaulle were cancelled in the first wave of reductions.</p>
<p>That was bad timing for travellers hoping to be at the table Christmas Eve, when the festive Christmas meal is served in France.</p>
<p>Getting people home is &#8220;our goal for tonight,&#8221; Air France ground official Michel Emeyriat said. &#8220;We will do everything so that our planes can take off with everyone,&#8221; he said. He conceded that long-haul flights get priority treatment.</p>
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