French authorities cancelled three in 10 flights on Monday from Paris's main airport Charles de Gaulle and its second-biggest Orly, as fresh snow heaped misery on stranded Christmas travellers.
"Air traffic at all airports in the Paris region is very disrupted," the DGAC civil aviation authority said in a statement.
It said it had "asked airlines to cut 30 percent of flights, until 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) at Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) and all day at Orly," where the runways were closed briefly on Monday morning after more heavy snow fell.
Thousands of passengers were already stranded over the weekend at airports in Paris and other European hubs including London Heathrow, as snow and ice caused many flights to be cancelled.
A spokesman for ADP, the company that manages Paris airports, said planes had begun landing again at Orly and Charles de Gaulle but outbound flights were still heavily disrupted and ADP advised passengers to check its website before travelling.
Cancellations and delays struck several other French airports, including Strasbourg in the east which closed down for two hours on Monday morning, authorities said.
Eurostar and Thalys trains linking France with Britain and Belgium as well as French domestic services continued to be delayed on Monday, forced to move slower because of the snow, the French rail company SNCF said.
The SNCF handed out 12,000 ready meals and booked 500 hotel rooms in Paris for stranded passengers, said the head of the company's SNCF Voyages booking service, Barbara Dalibard.
She said services were expected to be mostly back to normal for the coming Christmas weekend rush.
Authorities banned heavy trucks from some roads for several hours and many buses were cancelled in the Paris region, the RATP Paris transport network said.
The national weather forecaster Meteo France said the snowfall was easing compared to Sunday in some areas including Paris, where up to 15 centimetres (six inches) fell.
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