Air Canada on Thursday canceled flights before the possible strike by its flight attendant, which could affect hundreds of passengers.
A full shutdown of the country’s largest airline threatens to affect around 130,000 people a day.
Airline Said In a social media post that about 300 flight attendants, “twice as usual,” did not report on Thursday night.
“This would result in additional cancellation,” the airline said. “We regret inconvenience to customers.”
Air Canadian Chief Operations Officer Mark Nasar said that the airline has started a gradual suspension of Air Canada and Air Canada Roose operations.
“All flights will be stopped by Saturday morning,” he said.
The NASR stated that this approach would help in making a systematic restart, “which will take a week to complete under the best conditions.”
He said that a first set of cancellation associated with several dozen flights would affect foreign flights for a long time which was due to the departure on Thursday night. “Until tomorrow evening, we hope that flights affected by over 100,000 customers have been canceled,” Naser said. “By the time we reach 1 am on Saturday morning, we will be fully grounded.”
He said that a grounding will affect 25,000 Canadians in a day abroad who may be stranded. He hopes that 500 flights will be canceled by the end of Friday.
The Sangh, which represented around 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants, issued a 72 -hour strike notice on Wednesday. If no deal has reached or the government does not interfere, the flight attendants will start striking on Saturday, August 16.
In response to the strike notice, the airline issued a lockout notice.
The NASR said that customers whose flights are canceled would be eligible for full correspondence, and said that the airline is “possible to provide” to the extent possible. ”
Air Canadian CEO Michael Russo said in the previous statement, “We regret that our customers, our stakeholders and communities we serve will have an interruption.”
On Tuesday, Air Canada said it had reached a deadlock with the Sangh as the two sides stayed far away in contract talks. The Sangh has said that its main glued marks revolve around the fact that it calls flight attendants as “poverty wages” and unpaid labor when the aircraft are not in the air, while Air Canada said that it had offered a 38% increase in total salary in four years, as well as other benefits.
“Despite our best efforts, Air Canada refused to address our main issues,” the Sangh said in an update of a bargained bargained.
The Sangh rejected a proposal to enter a binding arbitration process from the airline, saying that it prefers to interact on a deal that its members can then vote.
