Strike over wages and ground work has cancelled travel for 500,000 people worldwide

Flight attendants walked off the job around 1 a.m. EDT on Saturday. Around the same time, Air Canada said it would begin locking flight attendants out of airports.

Air Canada advises passengers not to go to the airport unless they have tickets on other airlines.

A walkout by flight attendants ended after about 12 hours with the imposition of binding arbitration. But getting travel back to normal will take days.

Thousands of flight attendants have walked off the job over a wage contract dispute, forcing the airline to cancel all of its daily flights.

Union criticises move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded

Union rejected the Canadian government’s return-to-work order. The action has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded.

Workers at Canada’s flagship carrier defy back-to-work order as they stage first strike in 40 years.

The shutdown of Canada’s largest airline early Saturday was impacting about 130,000 people a day. Air Canada operates around 700 flights per day.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which is representing the workers, sought wage increases as well as to address uncompensated ground work, including during the…

MONTREAL: Air Canada’s fleet of hundreds of planes remained grounded on Monday morning after striking flight attendants refused a government-backed order to get back to work and…

The strike was already affecting about 130,000 travelers per day during the peak summer travel season.

Air Canada and the union representing 10,000 flight attendants resumed talks late Monday for the first time since the strike began over the weekend. The strike is affecting about…

The strike is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season.

MONTREAL/TORONTO: Air Canada’s unionized flight attendants reached an agreement with the country’s largest carrier on Tuesday, ending the first strike by its cabin crew in 40…

Air Canada and the union representing Canadian flight attendants have reached a tentative deal to end the strike that started Saturday. It will resume flights.

Strike over wages and ground work has cancelled travel for 500,000 people worldwide

While details of the agreement are not clear, the flight attendant union said that ‘unpaid work is over’.