Air Canada negotiations at impasse as strike deadline looms
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Less than one day remains before Air Canada's strike deadline, which would ground all of the airline's flights.
If no agreement is reached between the airline and the flight attendants' union by 1 a.m. Saturday, all flights will be cancelled.
Air Canada already cancelled 34 flights Thursday, affecting over 7,000 passengers, the airline wrote on X.
The airline added that close to 300 flight attendants didn't report for work Thursday — twice the usual number — forcing an additional unplanned 19 flight cancellations that impacted over 3,000 passengers.
Air Canada has been in negotiations with the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) since December 2024.
Some of the issues in contention include wages and unpaid work hours. The union issued the 72-hour strike notice Wednesday, and Air Canada issued a lockout notice in response.
A full airline shutdown would affect about 130,000 travellers per day, of whom 25,000 are Canadian.
A work stoppage would also be a major blow to Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, where more than half of the daily passenger traffic is made up of Air Canada's clientele.
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