DNYUZ
  • Home
  • News
    • U.S.
    • World
    • Politics
    • Opinion
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Science
  • Entertainment
    • Culture
    • Music
    • Movie
    • Television
    • Theater
    • Gaming
    • Sports
  • Tech
    • Apps
    • Autos
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup
  • Lifestyle
    • Arts
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel
No Result
View All Result
DNYUZ
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Travel Carnage as Major Airline Shuts Down After Strike in Peak Season

August 16, 2025
in News
Travel Carnage as Major Airline Shuts Down After Strike in Peak Season
492
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Air Canada announced it will suspend operations immediately after more than 10,000 of its flight attendants went on strike in the middle of peak travel season.

Staff staged a walkout at around 1 p.m. Eastern time Saturday, with the airline saying it would begin locking strike participants out of any airports where it is currently providing services, NPR reports.

The outlet added that the shutdown will disrupt travel for roughly 130,000 passengers each day the strike goes on, with an estimated 25,000 Canadians now stranded abroad.

“At a time when Canada is dealing with unprecedented pressures on our critical economic supply chains, the disruption of national air passenger travel and cargo transport services would cause immediate and extensive harm to all Canadians,” Goldy Hyder, chief executive of the Business Council of Canada, said in a statement.

Air Canada's aircraft seen at Calgary International Airport, on December 26, 2024, in Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Canada.
Air Canada halted operations after more than 10,000 flight attendants went on strike after the airline failed to reach a new contract deal with their union. NurPhoto/Artur Widak/NurPhoto

The shutdown follows after Canada’s largest airline failed to reach a new contract agreement with the Canadian Union of Public Employees amid a dispute over wages.

The union rejected proposals from the air travel provider to enter into arbitration given that this would undercut the organization’s right to strike under Canadian law as well as permitting a mediator to rule unilaterally on new terms of employment.

Patty Hajdu, Canada’s federal jobs minister, blasted both parties in a statement issued Friday night, calling on them to return to the table and reach an arrangement “once and for all.”

“It is unacceptable that such little progress has been made,” she said. “Canadians are counting on both parties to put forward their best efforts.”

Queues outside an Air Canada check-in desk.
It’s estimated up to 130,000 passengers will be affected for each day the industrial action goes on. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP via Getty Images

Alex Laroche, a 21-year-old resident of Montreal who had been saving for a trip to Europe with his girlfriend since Christmas, spoke with NPR about his concerns.

“At this point, it’s just a waiting game,” he said of their hopes of still making the $8,000 trip, for which their lodging is non-refundable and for which it would cost them nearly double the $3,000 they spent on the original tickets to book alternative travel.

He nevertheless feels sympathy for striking staff members after reading about some of the key issues they’ve been battling with the airline over.

“Their wage is barely livable,” he said.

The post Travel Carnage as Major Airline Shuts Down After Strike in Peak Season appeared first on The Daily Beast.

Tags: World
Share197Tweet123Share
Greedy landlords — not Bronx residents — were really to blame for the fires that ravaged NYC in the ’70s and ’80s: new book
Books

Greedy landlords — not Bronx residents — were really to blame for the fires that ravaged NYC in the ’70s and ’80s: new book

by New York Post
August 16, 2025

In the early hours of an April morning in 1975, New York landlord Imre Oberlander and his associate, Yishai Webber, ...

Read more
News

Mechanic finds Ford assembly worker’s lost wallet in vehicle hood from 11 years ago

August 16, 2025
Crime

Former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Doctor Charged With Possessing 153,000 Child Pornographic Images, Videos

August 16, 2025
News

Rams mum on whether Matthew Stafford worked out: Takeaways from preseason win

August 16, 2025
News

Music Billionaire, 82, Responds to Model Husband’s, 32, Sex-and-Drugs Lawsuit: ‘Salacious Lies’

August 16, 2025
Tariffs Are High. So Is the Stock Market.

Stocks Keep Climbing Past Bad News

August 16, 2025
Masked robbers pull off brazen midday heist at Seattle jewelry store in under two minutes

Masked robbers pull off brazen midday heist at Seattle jewelry store in under two minutes

August 16, 2025
NJ ‘Moms for Liberty’ leader claims Girl Scouts fired her for not promoting Pride Month activism

NJ ‘Moms for Liberty’ leader claims Girl Scouts fired her for not promoting Pride Month activism

August 16, 2025

Copyright © 2025.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • U.S.
    • World
    • Politics
    • Opinion
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Science
  • Entertainment
    • Culture
    • Gaming
    • Music
    • Movie
    • Sports
    • Television
    • Theater
  • Tech
    • Apps
    • Autos
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup
  • Lifestyle
    • Arts
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel

Copyright © 2025.