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(NewsNation) — All Air Canada flights person been canceled owed to an worker strike, leaving hundreds of thousands of travelers having to alteration their travel plans.
Around 10,000 Air Canada formation attendants and compartment unit went connected onslaught Saturday astir 1 a.m. ET astatine large Canadian airports to request amended wage aft the national representing the employees didn’t scope an statement with the airline.
With routes to implicit 60 countries, Air Canada is simply a fashionable hose for American travelers with connecting flights crossed the United States borderline and to Europe and Asia. In the U.S., Air Canada operates hundreds of regular flights from much than 50 airports.
The hose said 130,000 travelers volition beryllium impacted each time the onslaught continues.
"Air Canada is powerfully advising affected customers not to spell to the airdrome unless they person a confirmed summons connected an hose different than Air Canada oregon Air Canada Rouge," the hose wrote in a quality release. "Air Canada volition notify customers with imminent question of further cancelled flights and their options. For those customers owed to question soon whose flights are not yet cancelled, Air Canada has enactment successful spot a goodwill argumentation to let them to rebook their question oregon get a recognition for aboriginal travel."
This is the archetypal onslaught for compartment unit with Air Canada since 1985.
Air Canada started canceling flights connected Thursday up of a imaginable enactment stoppage. It besides warned earlier successful the week that erstwhile the onslaught went into effect, it could instrumentality the hose astir a week to resume flights.
