After several days of canceled flightsdelaying and derailing thousands of passenger travel plans, the Air Canada flight assistant strike has officially finished.
The largest airline in Canada announced “You will gradually restart your operations” Tuesday “after reaching a mediated agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees through a process supervised by a mutually agreed mediator.”
About 10,000 hostesses He refused to return to work Despite an order from the government on Sunday, in the midst of a dispute with Air Canada for wages and unpaid work. The Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, or CUPE, says that the salaries of the carrier are below inflation, market value and federal minimum wage and has asked that flight attendees are paid for work work, which includes labor before takeoff and after landing.
The airline said Tuesday that it participated in mediation discussions “based on the fact that the union is committed to the 10,000 airline hostesses from returning immediately to work” to allow the carrier to resume the operations of Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge that had been punished since Saturday.
An Air Canada plane is located at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, BC, August 17, 2025.
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“The suspension of our service is extremely difficult for our clients. We regret deeply and apologize for the impact of this work interruption. Our priority is now to make them move as quickly as possible,” said Michael Rousseau, president and executive director of Air Canada, in a statement.
The “complex company” for complete restoration, such as Rousseau referred to it, could take up to a week or more.
The first flights are scheduled for Tuesday night, and Air Canada has advised customers that the full and regular service could be seven to 10 days as the fleet of airplanes and their equipment is put in position.
“During this process, some flights will be canceled in the next seven to ten days until the schedule is stabilized,” said Tuesday’s announcement.
Air Canada was forced to cancel hundreds of flights as a result of work unemployment and said that almost 500,000 clients were affected in Canada and the United States.
United, the American Air Canada partner, told ABC News in a statement that very few United customers were affected.
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