Paris CDG Cuts Flights 35% on Antifreeze Shortage

Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, Europe’s second busiest, will cut flights by 35 percent for the rest of the day because of a shortage of antifreeze, used to remove ice from aircraft wings, and forecasts for more bad weather.

The airport faces “problems in supply of antifreeze liquid for planes,” French DGAC civil-aviation authority said in an e-mailed statement. The airport had already reduced flights before 1 p.m. by 50 percent. An emergency shipment of de-icing fluid was flown in from the U.S., the Associated Press reported.