new video loaded: Passengers Stranded as Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Continues transcript Back transcript Passengers Stranded as Air Canada Flight Attendants’ Strike Continues Passengers on Canada’s largest airline waited to be rebooked or compensated for flight cancellations as the walkout disrupted travel across the country. “What do we want?” “Fair pay.” “Forced to fly,…
MONTREAL (Reuters) -Air Canada’s unionized flight attendants walked off the job early on Saturday morning after contract talks with the country’s largest carrier stalled, in a move that could disrupt travel plans for more than 100,000 passengers. The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants confirmed the action in a social media post…
Air Canada began cancelling flights on Thursday after receiving a strike notice from the flight attendants’ union, warning all operations could be shut down by Saturday. The airline that transports about 130,000 passengers daily announced this week that negotiations on a new collective agreement with its 10,000 flight attendants had reached an “impasse.” Chief operating…