Air Canada and its pilots have reached a tentative agreement, and the airline is putting flights on sale to say thak you. “To show appreciation for the patience and flexibility of its customers while they waited, Air Canada is offering a limited-time deal and other delightful surprises from now until September 18,” 2024, airline officials said. Deal Alert! Air Canada is offering a 25% discount on new bookings and 2,500 bonus Aeroplan points from now until September 18. See here for more information. Take Flight and Be Delighted Air Canada will also be surprising their customers at select airports Read more
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I keep seeing stories with screaming headlines saying “Feds Won’t Intervene to Stop Air Canada Strike.” I disagree. If you look closely, that’s not what they’re saying. Here are some of Prime Minister Trudeau’s comments yesterday. “I’m not going to put my thumb on the scale on either side. It is up to Air Canada and the pilots’ union to do the work to figure out how to make sure that they are not hurting millions of Canadians,” he told reporters in Quebec, according to a report from Reuters. “Every time there’s a strike, people say ‘Oh, you’ll get the Read more
Travel chaos could be coming to Canada in just a few days. Air Canada today (Sept. 9) said a pilots strike appears “increasingly likely,” and that it was preparing for an “orderly shutdown” as early as Sunday, Sept. 15. Even a partial shutdown of Canada’s largest airline would result in travel chaos in Canada, and also in other cities around the world. Air Canada flies to more than 180 destinations across the globe, including the U.S.A., Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Bloomberg last week reported that Air Canada offered pilots a deal that would raise some pilot wages by Read more
A messy WestJet pilots’ strike is still possible for this week, but negotiations appear to be continuing between pilots and the airline. The pilots union issued an update Sunday at 5 p.m. Eastern Time to say talks were set to to continue. “As of Sunday at 5pm ET, no 72 hour notice for strike or lock-out has been submitted,” according to @WestJetALPA, the official Twitter account for the WestJet Master Executive Council (MEC), Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA). Global News reports that pilots representing both WestJet and its discount brand Swoop voted in favour of a strike mandate in Read more
