Air Canada will resume flights on Sunday after the northern neighbor’s authorities intervened to finish the employees’ strike that halted lots of of flights this weekend.
The airline stated in an announcement that the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) directed Air Canada to renew airline operations and ordered all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants to return to work by 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday.
The CIRB was appearing on a Saturday directive from the Canadian Minister of Jobs and Households, Patty Hajdu, who moved to finish the strike and require remaining binding arbitration to interrupt a contract deadlock. The order prolonged the present contract till a brand new settlement is reached.
Roughly 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job on Saturday, for the primary time since 1985, as progress towards a brand new contract stalled after a number of months of negotiations.
The transfer stranded greater than 100,000 vacationers all over the world and resulted within the suspension of roughly 700 day by day flights. The airline started canceling flights on Friday, in anticipation of the strike.
The airline stated in an announcement that it’s going to resume flights on Sunday night however that it expects additional flight cancellations over the subsequent seven to 10 days “until the schedule is stabilized.”
