"Air Canada awaits verdict on forced move after Paris airport terminal collapse"

Sunday, July 11, 2004

Air Canada awaits verdict on forced move after Paris airport terminal
collapse
Agence France-Presse


PARIS, (AFP) - A lawsuit lodged by Air Canada after it was forced to
leave its regular terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport in the
wake of a deadly collapse elsewhere at the facility in May is to be
decided by a French court Monday.

The court is to rule whether the Canadian airline should return or not
to terminal 2A of the airport, a source close to the matter said.

It was temporarily ordered out of the terminal to make room for Air
France, whose long-haul flights have been badly disrupted by the May 23
collapse of part of the roof of terminal 2E, an ultra-modern facility
completed less than a year ago.

Air Canada has said it viewed the move to the more distant terminal 1 as
"unacceptable", especially as it was only to have lasted three days in
June but was now expected to continue at least until the end of
September.

The director of the French operations of Air Canada, Thierry Baux, had
told journalists that the airline had invested two million euros (2.2
million dollars) in helping renovate terminal 2A.

The target of the lawsuit, the state-run airport management company
Aeroports de Paris, refused to comment on the case.


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