Access to three terminals at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport in the north was blocked and cabs were converging on the Orly airport in the south and at train stations inside the city, officials said.
The striking cabbies also blocked a western section of the "peripherique" highway that encircles the French capital for about thirty minutes, overturning trash bins onto the busy thoroughfare before police moved in to restore the traffic flow, police officials said.
Thousands of cabs were also due to assemble in several of France's other major cities as part of the strike today.
Taxi drivers in France are furious at US-based Uber, which they say is endangering their jobs by taking customers away from licensed cab companies.
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