Following a government order to stop a cabin staff strike that suspended around 700 daily flights and left over 100,000 customers stranded, Air Canada hopes to restart flights later on Sunday. Following months of contract discussions, thousands of Air Canada flight attendants took to the streets on Saturday for the first time since 1985.
The biggest airline in the nation announced that while flights would resume on Sunday night, some would still be canceled over the course of the following seven to ten days as the schedule settles and gets back to normal. Ahead of the halt, it had begun to cancel flights on Friday.
As the government sought to end the strike and impose binding arbitration to resolve a contract impasse, the CIRB was carrying out a directive from the nation’s Jobs Minister, Patty Hajdu. Air Canada had previously requested this action from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority Liberal government, but unionized flight attendants vehemently opposed it.
The union’s demand for payment for time spent on the ground between flights and assisting passengers with boarding has been the most controversial topic in the contract discussions. Nowadays, most attendants only get paid while their aircraft is in motion.
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